Fur Trade Trunk

ID: 3283
This file appears in: Spokane House: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition

This trunk housed personal belongings or trade goods at Spokane House. It was portable and could travel from post to post.

Item courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture Collection 691.3

This file appears in: Spokane House: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition

By The Spokane Historical team
Spokane House was Washington state's first fur-trading post and home to Jaco Finlay, a clerk for the North West Company of Montreal. The son of a Scottish trader and an American Indian "country wife,"…