This beautiful Ojibwa porcupine quill box is a one-of-a-kind box handmade by an Ojibwa artisan from Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada. Native Americans use these boxes to store jewelry and small household items. Beautiful and unique, the boxes are made from birch bark bases covered with designs made of natural and dyed porcupine quills and are trimmed with sweet grass.
The number of quill boxes being produced these days is negligible. Many of the women who used to make these have either retired or died and hardly anyone has kept the tradition alive.
North American porcupines are not endangered.
For each porcupine quill box we select, we reject 10 to 20 because of warped birch bark, poor designs, broken quills, and improperly fitting lids. We offer only the best of the best.