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glove box
glove box
glove box
Glove box with lid made of birch bark, moosehair, and black thread. Features interwoven moosehair along rim, as well as the word "Gloves" stitched in cursive writing on the lid. Adorned with floral and berry motifs.
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Birchbark, moosehair, black thread
Interwoven moosehair along rim. Lid is detached; has separate birchbark lining; in 6 separate pieces.
Floral w word gloves embroidered in english, strawberries blossoms on the side panels and immature berries; larger panel has mature berries (described by Wahsontiio Cross).
Provenance
This glove box was collected as part of the Technologisches Kabinett (technological cabinet). Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, who later became Emperor Ferdinand I, founded the Technological Cabinet in 1819. In the early stages of European museums, such “cabinets” (also known as “Kunstkabinette,” “Kunstkammern,” or Art Chambers) presented objects of different origins and purposes together. The Technologisches Kabinett was a collection of items representing early industrialization and innovation in the Austrian Empire. Items in the Cabinet included tools, utensils, and models of machines. In 1850 it became the Technological Cabinet of the Polytechnical Institute (currently the Technical University of Vienna). In 1864, part of the Technological Cabinet was moved to the Museum of Arts and Industries (Museum für Kunst und Industrie, the present Museum of Applied Arts). Afterwards, some of its ethnographic material was moved to the Anthropological-Ethnographic Department of the Natural History Museum.
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown Wendat artist, glove box. Currently in the Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 12081. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip January 2016; GRASAC item id 59044.
In January of 2016, a small team of GRASAC researchers visited the collection to study and photograph it: Ruth Phillips, Lisa Truong, Naomi Recollet (Anishinaabe (Odawa/Ojibwe), Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory) and Wahsontiio Cross (Mohawk, Kahnawake). This GKS record was created in January 2022 by GRASAC RA Amelia Healey.
Created using a spreadsheet with information made by Ruth Phillips, Lisa Truong, Naomi Recollet (Anishinaabe (Odawa/Ojibwe), Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory) and Wahsontiio Cross (Mohawk, Kahnawake).