wooden bowl

wooden bowl

wooden bowl

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Introduction

Wooden bowl made of light-weight wood. The holes on the sides suggest that it may have previously had a handle. The rim, stained dark brown, has a lip. Collected by Martin Pitzer, this item is currently housed at the Weltmuseum Wien in Vienna, Austria.

Name of Maker(s): Unknown Odawa artist
Nation of Maker: Odawa
Nation of Origin

GRASAC research notes created during an onsite visit to Weltmuseum in January of 2016.

In Martin Pitzer's "Index of Objects and Woks of an American Indian Tribe in the Far North, Together With a Description of the Same," he writes that the items in this book are from "the north ‐ eastern part of North America, and is called the tribe of the Otawahs, or Ottawas" (35).

Date Made or Date Range: Before 1854
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

GRASAC research notes created during an onsite visit to Weltmuseum in January of 2016.

Materials

Weight is very light; wood.

Techniques or Format

Carved with rim stained in dark brown. Rim has a lip. Holes on the side extension indicate that there may have been a handle or something to lift it. There are notches on the top of the extensions.

Description of Writing/Text

25.

Other Notes

Brown residue inside; inscription on side "25": collected with item # 131789 (little spoon) & 131788 (ladle).

Dimensions: 0 × 0 × 7.7 cm
Condition: Very good.
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Martin Pitzer collected this item; he travelled to the Great Lakes region in the 1850s.

Current Location: Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 131787
Collection at Current Location: Martin Pitzer Collection
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 1850s
Previous Collectors: Martin Pitzer
Collection Narratives and Histories

Austrian church painter Martin Pitzer travelled to the Great Lakes region, to "the Ottawa villages of Arbre Croche and Cross Village" in the early 1850s. He collected a significant number of items and brought them back to Austria to be part of an exhibition to raise money for the mission.

GKS Reference Number: 59050
How to Cite this Item

Unknown Odawa artist, bowl. Currently in the Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 131787. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip January 2016; GRASAC item id 59050.

Record Creation Context

In January of 2016, a small team of GRASAC researchers visited the collection to study and photograph it: Ruth Phillips, Lisa Truong, Naomi Recollet (Anishinaabe (Odawa/Ojibwe), Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory) and Wahsontiio Cross (Mohawk, Kahnawake). This GKS record was created in January of 2022 by GRASAC RA Aidan Mitchell-Boudreau.

Approximate Place of Origin

43.0703, -80.1184

Source of Information about Places

GRASAC research notes created during an onsite visit to Weltmuseum in January of 2016.

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