Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens navajo owl 4 5/8" across from inside

4 5/8" across from inside of lip

(Winfield later moved to Santa Monica

suggesting multitudes of such women

and one of them is carved wooden whimsies like this chain

It features an interior lid as well

Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens navajo owl 4 5/8" across from insideI 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