Bark With Silk And Quill
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: PIECE OF BARK EDGED WITH SILK AND EMBROIDERED WITH QUILL.
label: Notes
content: Larger piece is a bark fan handle with remnants of quilled floral decoration and edged with silk. Smaller fragmentary piece is bark with moose hair floral embroidery/decoration. Smaller piece might 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. In the second half of the 19th century, fans were very much in demand, and all the Northeastern Indigenous groups made them as souvenir items. Their popularity became so widespread that the Tupinamba of Brazil even started making them. However, the most famous ones were made by Huron-Wendat women artisans in Wendake (Lorette). 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: 28 Mar 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Great Lakes (not certain) / Woodlands (Northeast) (not certain), United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET14258-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fan