gokbinaagan, basket, birchbark with moosehair embroidery

gokbinaagan, basket, birchbark with moosehair embroidery

gokbinaagan, basket, birchbark with moosehair embroidery

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Introduction

This gokbinaagan or kokbinaagan (basket) is made from birchbark and embroidered with moose hair in floral motifs. In 1992, Marshall Joseph Becker gifted this relative to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology where it currently resides. 

Name of Maker(s): Maker Unrecorded
Nation of Maker: Huron-Wendat
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular nation(s)

The nation is listed as "Huron-Wyandot" on the catalogue card.

Materials

birchbark; moosehair natural and dyed dark green, pink, yellow; black thread

Motifs and Patterns

The moose hair embroidery forms floral motifs along all four sides of the basket.

Current Location: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 92-12-14
Link to Institution's Collections Database: https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/234218
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1992
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: Gift of Marshall Joseph Becker, 1992
Collection Narratives and Histories

In 1992, Marshall Joseph Becker gifted this relative to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology where it currently resides.

GKS Reference Number: 25663
How to Cite this Item

Maker, Name unrecorded. Gokbinaagan, basket, birchbark with moosehair embroidery. GRASAC ID 25663. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 92-12-14.

Record Creation Context

This information was gathered during a visit to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, May 6 2010. The researchers present were Adriana Greci-Green, Stacey Loyer, Coralie Boeykens.
This record was augmented by Joy Kruse on October 29, 2024.

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