container, birchbark
container, birchbark
container, birchbark
A birchbark container or "envelope" made by Mrs. Buckshot from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg. Used to preserve dried meat, and hold meat for trapping bears. With pitcher plant sgraffito design. Field collected by Frank Speck.
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birchbark; vegetable fiber; spruce root
birchbark container sewn with spruce root. Tie made of braided vegetable fiber. Sgraffito motif.
pitcher plant
Pitcher plant is floral trap
Used to trap bears
Speck tag: " Birch bark envelope for preserving dried meat from flies, etc. (a) also (b) for holding meat bait for bear trap or dead fall. The meat bait is put in container + hung above the trap where bear scents it + in grabbing for it springs the trap. Made by Mrs. Buckshot who in 20 years killed 57 bears. The designs are Pitcher Plants which are floral traps themselves."
Provenance
Purchased from Frank Speck.
About This GRASAC Record
Visit to Denver Art Museum of Alex Nahwegahbow and Ruth Phillips, assisted by Eric Berkemeyer and Kristin Strid on 21 Jan 2014
46.3612, -75.9567
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