Bark-Breaker
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Sep 1900
name: label: Donor Name
content: Iver Fougner
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Thin board, sharp on lower edge and with hand grip on upper edge. Used for breaking cedar bark."
label: Notes
content: Bark shredder.
label: Notes
content: Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. This is a shredder, not a beater. After you've beaten your bark and softened it, you take the bark and you put it at the edge of a box or a table, and you use the shredder to fray the fibers. Then you're able to make it into clothing, diapers, or menstrual pads. There is a cedar bark softening dance.
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 50 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 037021
label: USNM Number
content: E206548-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Beater