Materials

Calling card tray made with birch bark, embroidered with moosehair

Techniques or Format

This tray has an eight-sided bottom, with eight side panels stitched together and embroidered with moose hair.

Motifs and Patterns

The bottom is decorated with a bird motif. Each of the side panels is embroidered with a different scene of daily life (for example, a woman with a kettle over a fire, image of a courting couple touching other )

Dimensions: 27 × 27 × 0 cm

Condition: Poor. Panels have fallen apart and collapsed, which gave the impression to this museum that it was a mat and not a tray.

Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Based on dyes and style of embroidery.

Current Location: British Museum, London, UK

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: Am1928.92

GKS Reference Number: 25545

How to Cite this Item

Unknown Huron-Wendat artist, tray. Currently in the British Museum, Am1928.92. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 25545.

Record Creation Context

This record was created as part of a Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC) research trip to the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum, December 8-22 2007, funded by a grant from the International Opportunities fund of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

Record Creation Notes/Observations

Researchers present: Heidi Bohaker (HB), John Borrows (JB), Lindsay Borrows (LB), Darlene Johnston (DJ), Stacey Loyer (SL), Janis Monture (JM), Bruce Morito (BM), Ruth Phillips (RP), Cory Willmott (CW).