berry basket

berry basket

berry basket

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Date Made or Date Range: /1915
Materials

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Other Notes

Berry basket, of 4 pieces pine bark sewn with withes. Three roughly rectangular pieces form sides. Other piece has roughly circular section (base) and bends up, completing the basket wall. Upper rim is sewn to a bent twig whose ends overlap to close circle. Handle is strip of withe looped on rim at one place. with short end attached on rim nearby. Sewing is overhand or basting.;;

Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

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Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: III-I-1063
Collection Narratives and Histories

1915/07/01 - 1915/09/30, Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada, (Waugh) Berry picking basket of pine bark. D. Jack.

GKS Reference Number: 25424
Approximate Place of Origin

43.0703, -80.1184