Pkg. Birch Bark Figures
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Jan 1931
name: label: Collector
content: Miss Frances T. Densmore
label: Donor Name
content: Miss Frances T. Densmore
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Figures cut out of birch bark, held in birch bark folder. The accession papers indicate that this specimen is Ojibwa, not Menominee [as originally catalogued.] LHC 7/77."
label: Notes
content: These appear to be patterns of designs for beadwork cut from birch bark. See p. 390 and Plate 57 in "Uses of Plants by the Chippewa Indians" by Frances Densmore, BAE 44th Annual Report, where Densmore describes and illustrates this type of bark beadwork patterns. Also, per Nyholm, Earl. 1981. The use of birchbark by the Ojibwa Indians. Festival of American Folklife, Ojibwa artifacts were often adorned with birchbark cutouts in the form of bird or abstract floral designs; these were sewn on with split roots.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 25
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113412
label: USNM Number
content: E349690-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Pattern