Birch Bark Card Tray With Moosehair Work
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Feb 1902
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. George B. Goode
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Sarah F. Goode
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "30,828 REPAIRED AT CONSERVATION BY JOSEPH ANDREWS 5/29/73. REFER TO CAT. NO. 102,240 WHICH IS VERY SIMILAR. (SEPARATE CARDS MADE FOR OTHER TWO SPECIMENS. LHC 6/77) INVENTORIED 1977." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 2OTH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "CARD TRAYS (3).---MADE OF BIRCH BARK, CIRCULAR, WITH SCALLOPED EDGE. DELICATELY ORNAMENTED WITH FLORAL AND VARIOUS OTHER DESIGNS WORKED WITH DYED PORCUPINE QUILLS. MICMAC INDIANS (ALGONKIAN STOCK), NOVA SCOTIA, 1877. 30,820 [30820 is a copper chisel, so they probably mean # 30830?], 30,828, AND 30,829. COLLECTED BY G. BROWN GOODE."
label: Notes
content: Provenience note: Catalogued as Chippewa, but old late 19th or early 20th century U.S. National Museum exhibit label called it Micmac. An alternate ID would be Huron (Wendat). Embroidered birch bark trays are commonly seen as tourist items made by Native people of the Quebec region for tourism purposes, trading, and sale to collectors. Birchbark containers embroidered with moosehair were one of the specialties of Huron/Wendat women. The Micmac/Mi'kmaq made similar ones, but theirs were decorated with porcupine quillwork in geometric motifs. Sources: Bruchac, Margaret, and Liliana Gurry. “Moose Hair Embroidered Birchbark Trays: French, Native, or Both.” Penn Museum Blog, November 9, 2018. Retrieved March 26, 2022, from https://www.penn.museum/blog/museum/moose-hair-embroidered-birchbark-trays-french-native-or-both/ . Sioui, Linda. “The Huron-Wendat Craft Industry from the 19th Century to Today.” Musée McCord Museum, 2007. Retrieved March 26, 2022 from http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/scripts/printtour.php?tourID=cw_huronwendat_en&Lang=2 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Mar 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe) (?)
label: Culture
content: Micmac (Mi'kmaq) (?)
label: Culture
content: Huron (Wendat) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 038947
label: USNM Number
content: E30828-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Container