Birch Bark Patterns 100
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Jul 1956
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. John M. Cooper
label: Donor Name
content: Catholic University Of America
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "These were made by Mrs. John Kosis, 1927, an old woman whom it was fortunate to find was an expert at making them. They are usually made by women, by folding a thin layer of white birchbark and biting into it only with the canine teeth - (according to Cooper). They are used to decorate bark baskets, by first darkening the baskets with willow-bark dye prepared by chewing and spitting it on. Then pattern is held against the new surface and scratched through the perforations to give a light design against the darker one."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Mar 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 25
place: label: Place
content: Fort Albany, James Bay, Ontario, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cree, Swampy
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 211312
label: USNM Number
content: E395365-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pattern Transparency