Pot hooks for maple sap kettles

Pot hooks for maple sap kettles

Pot hooks for maple sap kettles

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Two pot hooks for holding maple sap kettles, formed of cut sections of tree branches with natural bends. Collected by F.W. Waugh, Sandfield, Algoma County Ontario, north shore of Georgian Bay, Lake Huron

Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe
Place of Origin: Sandfield, Algoma County, Ontario
Date Made or Date Range: 1890s
Materials

sections of tree branches with natural bends making them suitable for use as pot hooks

Current Location: National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: E203766
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1899
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 1890s
GKS Reference Number: 27166
Approximate Place of Origin

43.3, -78.1

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