Charging Bear

Charging Bear

Charging Bear

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Introduction

Round shaped. Top: Charging Bear; fully tufted; brown charging bear with rolls of fur, brown flat quilled nose and claws; white eyes and tongue. Background: sky with white and gray clouds,green pine trees and grass, gray rocks and blue water. Sides: white quills, white criss-cross with red,yellow, green diamonds. Trim: sweetgrass; top edge of top, middle and bottom of bottom with white quill criss-crosses. Bottom edge of top, bottom edge of bottom trimmed with sweetgrass sewn on with black thread. Anishinaabe, Great Lakes, Wikwemikong. Maker: Rose Williams. Collector: Katherine C. Vail.

Name of Maker(s): Rose Williams, Kimewon maiden name.
Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe Mississauga
Nation of Origin

From Wikwemekong, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada.

 

Reasons for connecting this relative with particular nation(s)

Collector's notes.

Place of Origin: Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory
Date Made or Date Range: 1979 or before
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

Description written by Judy Pierzynowski and based on notes from the collector's index files.

Materials

Porcupine quills, white birch bark, sweetgrass, black thread

Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

The item was purchased by the collector in 1979.

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 2017:24.18
Collection at Current Location: Michigan State University Museum Katherine C. Vail Collection
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: May 15, 2017
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: Katherine C. Vail collection
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: April 1979
Previous Collectors: Katherine C. Vail
Collection Narratives and Histories

From a large collection of quillwork collected by Katherine C. Vail, between 1980 and 2016. Vail had a summer home in Indian River, Michigan and collected works by many Michigan Native quillworkers.

GKS Reference Number: 58779
Approximate Place of Origin

43.0703, -80.1184

Source of Information about Places

Indicated in the collector's notes and Heather Howard and Judy Pierzynowski who created this record are familiar with the family and name.

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