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Haudenosaunee-style moccasins with centre-seam, beaded vamp and cuffs. Tanned hide is decorated in beadwork on the vamp and cuffs, which have deteriorated to the point where most of the beads on vamp are missing, and the silk ribbon has detached from the cuff.

Anishinaabe birchbark container decorated with bird and floral motifs in dyed porcupine quills. Panels sewn together with spruce root and lined with paper. The lid is held on with silk ribbon.

Anishinaabe wooden cradleboard/baby carrier with woolen baby wrapper. Wrapper has geometric beaded designs as well as loom-woven porcupine quillwork and detellium shells.

Beadwork sample created by Mrs. Walter Jimerson of Allegheny Seneca reservation (NY). Museum purchase by Frank G. Speck in 1951. Red felt cloth bound with blue silk ribbon and edged with white glass beads. White beadwork ornaments the border of two edges. Note attached describes

Beadwork sample made by Mrs Walter Jimerson before 1949. Glass beads sewn onto red wool fabric; note attached reads: "Bells. (a weed) / Oh sayh-wanh-dah." Museum purchase by Frank G. Speck, 1949.

Beadwork sample made by Mrs. Walter Jimerson (Allegheny Seneca Resrvation, New York) before 1951. Wool, silk, glass
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Birch bark container with lid, decorated with porcupine quillwork and lined with newspaper dated 1833. Four possible heron doodem track mark images on lid.

Haudenosaunee carved wooden cradleboard with notched top edge. Partially detached bow and missing back crossbar. Back of the cradleboard has been carved and painted in floral, possibly strawberries, and possibly dome or concentric semi-circular motifs. Mohawk from Akwesasne, St. Regis.

Elder Ted Toulouse, from Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation, shows and explains how to harvest sheets of birch bark. In Ojibwe with Ojibwe captions. Video created by Ted Toulouse, Alan Corbiere and Evelyn Roy. To play the video, open the "Show Detailed" tab above, then look

Ted Toulouse, from Sagamok First Nation, shows the marks on a sheet of birch bark that reveal its sex to be male or female. Video created by Ted Toulouse, Alan Corbiere and Evelyn Roy. * To play the video or see the glossary and transcript

Elder Ted Toulouse, from Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation, narrating in Ojibwe, demonstrates how the Anishinaabeg used to tap trees by cutting a gash in the tree, inserting a wooden spile (negamaakwaan) and placing a biskite-naagan (bark sap bucket) underneath it. Video by Alan Corbiere, Ted

Ted and Myna Toulouse and Mary Ann Corbiere discuss a bwe-kik (large birch storage vessel) at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington (GKS ID #25724). Ted and Myna explain that it looks like it was made from the bark of a birch

Elder Ted Toulouse, from Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation, shows a birch tree that he harvested the bark from two years ago, demonstrating that the tree survives but also that the bark that regenerates there is stronger and thicker. This is the type of bark used

Small corn husk doll from Six Nations on the Grand River. The doll has black hair and wears a cotton floral tunic with belt, dark blue skirt, black leggings and moccasins with white beaded edging.

A birch hickory bark rattle secured with grass around the handle.

A Mohawk clay pot made by Elda "Bun" Smith. The pot has a narrow base, wide shoulder and narrower neck. The neck is decorated with a geometric incised pattern.The body is uniformly texturized. "EMS is incised on the bottom of the pot, there is also

A pot made by Elda "Bun" Smith. The exterior of the clay pot is a dark brown matte glaze and the interior is glazed pink. It is a squat shape with a wide shoulder, narrow neck and flayed mouth. Three horizontal bands of geometric patterns

A clay pot made by Dee Martin, dark brown in colour with a long narrow neck and spherical base. The surface is decorated with incised drawings: around the body of the vessel are the nine round motifs each displaying one of the nine Haudenosaunee clans