scroll, birchbark
scroll, birchbark
scroll, birchbark
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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.
Walpole Island First Nation
PMAE Catalogue record
PMAE Catalogue Record
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Birchbark
incised turtle, thunderbird, human hunter, bear motifs
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."
PMAE seems to have acquired this item in 1906, thus the object was created prior to this point.
Provenance
About This GRASAC Record
Image © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 06-22-10/66308
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.