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Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe Odawa
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular nation(s)

"Chippewa" on card.

Place of Origin: Michigan (Northern Michigan), USA
Date Made or Date Range: before 1914
Materials

birch bark; porcupine quills natural and dyed green, orange, pink, dark purple, light purple; purple/blue; sweetgrass; dark thread

Techniques or Format

A circular bottom made of birch bark around which are rows of bunched sweetgrass wrapped with dark thread. One row of sweetgrass is done in an undulating line. The top and inner bottom rows of bunched sweetgrass also have coloured quills wrapped in with them. There are double tacks with quills on the bottom.

Motifs and Patterns

Floral

Condition: Some broken and missing quills.
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Gotschall collected between 1880 and 1914.

Current Location: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: L-84-139
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1936
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 1880-1914
Collection Narratives and Histories

In May of 1914 the Gottschall collection was accessioned by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP). Lent to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in 1936, and formally gifted in 1991 or 1992.

GKS Reference Number: 25526
Record Creation Context

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, May 6 2010.

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