Birch Bark Etched Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 Apr 1927
name: label: Donor Name
content: Miss Isabel C. Freeman
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: ""Birchbark, woodsplints, sweetgrass, aniline dye, deerhide. Lidded birchbark container, trapezoidal form. Rectangular base; bark cut & folded at sides, sewn with woodsplints dyed burgundy, over facings of single woodsplint lashed together with woodsplint lengths. Exterior incised with crosshatching, floral motifs, geometric designs, realistic pictures of persons, animals, wigwam. One long side shows wigwam, child, woman, fire with fettle, man in feather headdress with raised tomahawk, menaced by a large bear. The first short side features an owl and a muskrat (?), the second short side a porcupine and a raccoon (?). Reverse long side has two manned canoes chasing a deer in the water. The lid is rectangular with rounded corners, backed with a second sheet of bark, edged with sweetgrass, & sewn with burgundy splints. The underside has a recessed foot, which slots into the container mouth. Lid is incised with two rabbits smoking pipes, and a border of geometric motifs. A carrying strap of deerhide, with the fur still on, attaches at either side.""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Maine, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Passamaquoddy (Peskotomuhkati)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 096010
label: USNM Number
content: E334976-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Container