Maple Tree section with gash and spout for maple sap collecting

Maple Tree section with gash and spout for maple sap collecting

Maple Tree section with gash and spout for maple sap collecting

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Section of a maple tree showing the gash cut and the wooden spout driven in for conducting the maple sap into birch bark containers. Collected by F.W. Waugh, north shore of Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, at Sandfield, Algoma County in the 1890s

Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe
Date Made or Date Range: 1890s
Materials

wood with bark, nails

Dimensions: 65 × 21 × 0 cm
Current Location: National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: E203764
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1890s
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: F. W. Waugh
Collection Narratives and Histories

F. W. Waugh

GKS Reference Number: 26219
Approximate Place of Origin

43.3, -78.1

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