Birch Bark Vessel
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Museum Of Academy Of Sciences Leningrad
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: ""Child's birch bark vessel for gathering berries." Made of a double thickness of bark. Ornamentation consists of strips of wood sewn to the surface, the stitches of horse hair holding it on being evenly spaced."
label: Notes
content: Reference: Ivanova-Unarova, Zinaida, 2017. Siberian Collections in the U.S. Museums. Yakutsk. Object is identified there: Birch bark box. Mallakhihit. 19th century, second half. Birch bark, osier-bed, horsehair. Sewing, twisting, carving. H.: 11.5, D.: 12.This round box is sewn from two layers of birch bark and is fixed on top by a wide osier-bed rim as well as three rows of narrow osier-bed rings below. There are small osierbed pillars inserted between the second and third rings. All the rings are sewn on using twisted black horsetail hair. The upper ring is stitched on using finger-like seams and all the others using oblique parallel seams. The upper layer of birch bark at the base is cut in a dentil pattern. The bottom is strengthened using narrow osier-bed stick and is stitched with horse mane hair. Judging by the ornamentation, the box was not used for storing liquids. It could have been used for storing hard butter or as a box for women's needlework. There are signs that there used to be a lid but it is missing now. A handle from threads was attached later.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Dec 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Aldan & Lena Rivers Area, Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yakut (Sakha)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 103666
label: USNM Number
content: E352234-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Container
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 11.5 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 12 cm