scroll, birchbark

scroll, birchbark

scroll, birchbark

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Introduction

This relative is a birchbark scroll with pictographic writing. The catalogue record indicates: "A medicine song with eight verses represented. [with] Drawing on birch bark, incised turtle, thunderbird, human hunter, bear motifs."

This relative is currently housed at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. 

Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe Ojibwe
Nation of Origin

Walpole Island First Nation

Reasons for connecting this relative with particular nation(s)

PMAE Catalogue record

Place of Origin: Bkejwanong Territory (Walpole Island First Nation)
Date Made or Date Range: Pre-1906
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

PMAE Catalogue Record

Materials

Birchbark

Motifs and Patterns

incised turtle, thunderbird, human hunter, bear motifs

Description of Writing/Text

The (catalogue) number 66308 is on the reverse. Handwritten in ink is the number 153153, though this has been crossed out, along with the words "Ojibwa" and "Hoffman."

Condition: Object appears to be in very good condition, with only slight fading.
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

PMAE seems to have acquired this item in 1906, thus the object was created prior to this point.

Current Location: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 06-22-10/66308
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: approx 1906
GKS Reference Number: 24720
How to Cite this Item

Image © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 06-22-10/66308

Record Creation Context

Cory Willmott, Alan Corbiere, Adrianna Grecci Green and David Penney conducted research on site at the Peabody Museum for Archaeology and Ethnology in July 2007 with help from Susan Haskell and Patricia Capone of the PMAE. Cory Willmott's research was funded by a grant from the American Philosophical Society. Al Corbiere was supported through Ruth Phillips's SSHRC Canada Research Chair Funding. An internal grant from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville provided Cory with an RA, Ceara Horsley, for 2009 and 2010 to work on GRASAC data entry.

This record was updated by GRASAC Summer RA, Carlie Manners in 2021 with additional information from the PMAE.

It was updated again, with the inscriptions on the reverse, by Cara Krmpotich on May 30, 2024.

Approximate Place of Origin

42.536740221333, -82.541090603226

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