Bark Container
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 May 1990
name: label: Collector
content: Ms. E. B. Kavasch
label: Donor Name
content: Sites Native Harvests
notes: label: Notes
content: FOUR SIDED BIRCH BARK BUCKET, FRENCH NAME MIKOK OR MUKAK, WITH BIRCH BARK LID AND SKIN HANDLE. BARK LASHED TOGETHER WITH SPLIT SPRUCE ROOT. RIM REINFORCED WITH ASH WOOD SPLINTS. HANDLE MADE OF TANNED LEATHER THONG. SURFACE ETCHING OF PLANT DESIGN ON ALL FOUR WALLS AND LID. LID LASHING IS BROKEN IN FOUR AREAS. COLLAR OF LID GLUED AS WELL AS STITCHED TO LID TOP. PENCIL AND INK MARKINGS VISIBLE BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF BUCKET. PURCHASED IN 1979 FOR $25.00 FROM IROQRAFTS, OHSWEKEN, SIX NATIONS RESERVE, ONTARIO, CANADA BY MS. E. BARRIE KAVASH FOR SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICE (SITES) NATIVE HARVESTS EXHIBIT.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Algonquin
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 378691
label: USNM Number
content: E430179-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Container
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 16 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 12 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 14 cm