Black Ash Log
Name
Black Ash Log
Scientific name
Fraxinus nigra
Type
botanical
Creator
Bkejwanong/Walpole Island First Nation
Levi Sturgeon
Spatial Coverage
Canada
Walpole Island, Ontario
Date (yyyy-mm-dd)
1933-07-08
Description
Bought from William George for $0.75. It was considered by Sturgeon to be a little too crooked, but was selected by him as the best of a group of six or eight trees which were examined. The others were thought to be too knotty. The rings of this tree were considered by him to be thin, pliable, and of good texture. The tree was about thirty feet tall, it being about fourteen feet to the first limb. The log was seven feet ten inches long when cut, and the remainder of the trunk to the first limb was discarded as it was too knotty. 5 inches at the diameter at the base, 3.5 inches in diameter at top, having twenty rings. The tree was cut about 6 inches above the ground (from Volney Jones' 1933 field notes, Field no. 112).
Identifier
UMMAA 13940
Collector
Volney Jones and Mrs. Hyman (Ada) Smith
UM holding institution
Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
Relation
UMMAA 13967 is the leaves and twigs from this log.
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