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Tray, bread-making, other household purposes, wood. Smooth, oval, projecting handles from the rim made from one piece of basswood. Outside surface, bottom flat, walls convex painted dark green, metal screw eye on one end wall. Rim flat with smears of green paint,width increases near handles. Handles, two rectangle shapes approximately, 6.6 X 2.5 cm overhanging bowl, slightly curving down, finger lip underneath. One handle has a large 5 X 6 cm crooked notch cut through handle and rim, two scrapes beside remaining handle. Outside of bowl, white rub marks.;;

1912 p;;

191204 - 191207, Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada, (CULTURE REMARKS)Attribution by provenance (DOCUMENTATION)(Waugh) "Basswood Bowl - Mrs. Lucy Hill (Ca)." (COMMENTS)It appears that bark was more popular than wood for making household purpose bowls. To make wooden dishes it was hard work and sometimes knots of wood were used. Stone hatchets were used to form the utensil, coal from the fire were used to hollow it out, with Beaver's Teeth used while polishing. Flint, bone, shell and other materials were used as cutting implements. Saws were made from flints and the rough posterior margin of the snapping turtle's shell (Waugh, 65)

Illustrated in Waugh, F.W., IROQUIS FOODS AND FOOD PREPARATION, Ottawa: Canada Department of Mines, Geological Survey, 1916:207