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wooden ladle
wooden ladle
wooden ladle
Wooden ladle carved out of a single piece of light-weight wood. The top of the handle has a bear motif, with brown staining on the bottom of the spoon. Collected by Martin Pitzer, this item is currently housed at the Weltmuseum Wien in Vienna, Austria.
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).
GRASAC research notes created during an onsite visit to Weltmuseum in January of 2016.
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Weight is very light; wood.
Carved; single piece of wood.
Top of handle has a bear figure.
Brown staining on bottom of spoon; collected with 131789 & 131787.
Martin Pitzer collected this item; he travelled to the Great Lakes region in the 1850s.
Provenance
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.
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown Odawa artist, ladle. Currently in the Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 131788. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip January 2016; GRASAC item id 59051.
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.
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GRASAC research notes created during an onsite visit to Weltmuseum in January of 2016.