Pictographs On Birch Bark
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Jan 1956
name: label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Etched with blunt point through cortex of outer surface of a square of birch bark forming thirteen mnemonic figures, in sequence from left to right and from top to lower line: two Indians in canoe; four legged animal; two Indians in canoe; animal; second line: two Indians in canoe; fish; two Indians in canoe; moose; bottom line, buck deer; three trees; wigwam (house). Reproduced in color, pl. XVI in part (upper left), 10th AR, BAE [, in "Picture-Writing of the American Indians" by Garrick Mallery]. On p. 214, Mallery writes 'It is an exact copy of part of an old bark record made by the Abnaki of Maine.'"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Feb 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Maine / New Brunswick, United States / Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Abenaki
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 208851
label: USNM Number
content: E393430-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Scroll