berry basket
berry basket
berry basket
Place of Origin:
Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
Date Made or Date Range:
/1915
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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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Provenance
Current Location:
Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Canada
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.
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GKS Reference Number:
25424
Approximate Place of Origin