Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens real scarab or a tuna fish sandwich

or a tuna fish sandwich with chips

Wired on the back for hanging

which has led me to believe that it is Native Alaskan

based in Stonington

Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens real scarab or a tuna fish sandwichI had not seen a box like this one before I found it, but have learned that it is an antique snuff box representative of a whole genre of figurative birch snuff boxes made in the 18th and 19th century in Scandinavia and Germany, and also it seems in the U. S., as I found one in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts portraying the death of a general at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775! The hinged box, which I believe dates to the second