birch bark container for maple sugar

birch bark container for maple sugar

birch bark container for maple sugar

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Introduction

Birch bark container sewn with vegetable fibre meant to hold maple sugar.

Materials

Birch bark, vegetable fibre, possibly spruce root

Techniques or Format

Single piece of bark sewn with vegetable fibre thread and fine spruce root (?), a vegetable fibre handle is

Motifs and Patterns

Two hourglass shapes on one long side and two concentric squares on the opposite sides

Additional Context

The hour glasses Thunderbird images? and the concentric squares -Underwater/ whirlpool images?

Other Notes

Mmall mokuks like this were used to contain maple sugar and sold in the commodity/souvenir trade. The images relate to traditional iconographies formerly scraped into the bark surface of containers

Dimensions: 9.5 × 4 × 4.5 cm
Current Location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 992.274.13
Collection at Current Location: Bedford Collection
GKS Reference Number: 27304
How to Cite this Item

Unknown artist, birch bark container for maple sugar. Currently in the Royal Ontario Museum, 992.274.13. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip October 2014; GRASAC item id 27304.

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