Etched Birchbark Pictograph
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Jan 1974
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. J. Walter Fewkes
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. J. Walter Fewkes
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Birchbark with brown back etched into a scene of: person in canoe between a shore and an island, birds above."
label: Notes
content: In the incised scene, one of the birds flying overhead appears to be defecating on the person in the canoe. E416199 – E416202A are most probably Passamaquoddy. In April 1890, Jesse Walter Fewkes traveled to Calais, Maine to work with the Passamaquoddy Tribe to test out the new phonograph technology. Fewkes made recordings on 35 wax cylinders (31 of these cylinders survive.) Fewkes also went to Point Pleasant, Maine. See also Fewkes, J. Walter. "A Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore." The Journal of American Folklore 3, no. 11 (1890): 257-80. doi:10.2307/534065; stable url https://www.jstor.org/stable/534065 . E416202 is illustrated after p. 257 in the publication.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Jul 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Calais, Washington County, Maine, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Abenaki
label: Culture
content: Passamaquoddy (Peskotomuhkati)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 309806
label: USNM Number
content: E416202-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Scroll