quilled birchbark mat, placemat or furniture panel

quilled birchbark mat, placemat or furniture panel

quilled birchbark mat, placemat or furniture panel

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Introduction

Mat, placemat or furniture panel made of birch bark, porcupine quills and red silk.

Materials

Birch bark, porcupine quills, red silk binding

Motifs and Patterns

Geometric, thunderbirds

Other Notes

Similar panels are at the Brant County historical museum, there was probably a set which was broken up at some point and distributed among the Johnson children

Dimensions: 35 × 23.5 × 0 cm
Condition: Good, fading of quill colours
Current Location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 922.1.81
Collection at Current Location: Evelyn Johnson/Chiefswood Collection
GKS Reference Number: 27335
How to Cite this Item

Unknown artist, quilled birchbark mat, placemat or furniture panel. Currently in the Royal Ontario Museum, 922.1.81. Item described as part of a GRASAC research trip October 2014; GRASAC item id 27335.

Approximate Place of Origin

43.0703, -80.1184

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