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Native American - Northeast and Southeast Woodland ➔ Quill Box
Identifier:
1999.14.1a-bDescription:
This oval quill box has a flat top with the bottom trimmed in split root and has a star design. It shows the typical form and materials for 20th-century Ottawa tourist art and displays the adaptation of traditional materials, forms, and decorations into a new tourist economy. This box was purchased by the donor at Fred Ettawageshik's store in Harbor Springs, Michigan, around 1944.
Date:
circa 1944Materials:
Birchbark, Porcupine QuillDimensions:
1.25" h 2.5" w 1.75" dCurrent Location Status:
In StorageCollection Tier:
Tier 2Source:
Gift Of Janice M. VandenboschExhibits/Programs:
Anishinabek: The People of this Place (1995 – 2025)Anishinaabek: The Original People of This Place (after 2026)
Redesign of the Anishinabek: The People of this Place exhibit. Ideas for potential artifacts.
Related Entities:
Ottawa (creator)Alternate names: Odaawa, Odawa Janice M. VandenBosch (donor) Frank Ettawageshik (sold by)
Frank Ettawageshik lives in Harbor Springs, Michigan. Frank served for sixteen years in Tribal elected office and fourteen as the Tribal Chairman of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in Harbor Springs. He was also very influential in the adoption of the Tribal and First Nations Great Lakes Water Accord in 2004 and the United League of Indigenous Nations Treaty in 2007.
Frank was also a fellow for the Native Nations Institute Indigenous Leaders Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona in 2010. Ettawageshik has given over 40 years of public service to Executive Board of the National Congress of American Indians, the Midwest Alliance of Sovereign Tribes, the Historical Society of Michigan, the Chippewa Ottawa Resource Authority, the Michigan Climate Action Council, the Little Traverse Conservancy, the Michigan Travel Commission, the Public Interest Advisory Group for the International Joint Commission’s Upper Great Lakes Study, the Michigan Great Lakes Offshore Wind Council, and the Michigan Ground Water Conservation Advisory Council. In December 2015 he attended the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Council of the Parties in Paris, France, as a delegate from the National Congress of American Indians. Frank was one of the 200 Indigenous people to attend as a member of the International Indigenous Peoples Caucus on Climate Change out of the total 45,000 COP21 attendees. In addition he was the 2021 Milliken Award winner.
He is currently serving as the Executive Director of the United Tribes of Michigan and also the Chairman of the United League of Indigenous Nations Governing Board and the Co-chair of the National Congress of American Indians Federal Recognition Task Force. Frank is also involved with multiple non-profit boards like the Association on American Indian Affairs, Anishinaabemowin Teg and the Michigan Indian Education Council.