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Omahkapi'si

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Picked this up at an antique joint today. I was thinking it might be ok in my wedge tent to keep a cooler in, out of sight. It said late 1800’s on it but who knows? Anybody have any ideas? Wooden box covered in hammered brass. Pretty chunky to lift. Think it might fit a primitive style camp?
Regardless it will get used. :)
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Nice looking chest, with the pull out inner box and as thick as the walls are my guess would be a cooler of some sort, I,m in the process of building a wooden cooler for myself, just started glueing up boards today, I'll post pics when its done
 
Now I have to come up with a story of how my frontier/mountain man persona came across an Asian tea box one day and it ended up in his camp....maybe they were crossing the divide and got caught in an avalanche....the box survived since it's so heavy duty. :)
 
Looks like a heavy ol' pig to lug around. I've used elk hides to make parfleche boxes, with different historical tribal designs painted. I toted around heavy wooden boxes for years, and once even a steamer trunk when I was still married. The parfleches made my load a lot lighter, and when I got rid of the X, I went from a pickup with sideboards to haul everything, to now being able to easily haul my full camp in a car with room left over!
 
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