Melon Basket
Name
Melon Basket
Type
ethnographic
Creator
Bkejwanong/Walpole Island First Nation
Levi and Winifred Sturgeon
Spatial Coverage
Canada
Walpole Island, Ontario
Date (yyyy-mm-dd)
1933-07-07
Description
A "melon" type basket made primarily by Mr. Levi Sturgeon. The dyeing and weaving with yellow and red splints was done by Mrs. Sturgeon. The splints are woven in near the handle-basket junctures (from Volney Jones' 1933 field notes, Field no. 109).
Identifier
UMMAA 13952
Collector
Volney Jones and Mrs. Hyman (Ada) Smith
UM holding institution
Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
Relation
- Item sets
- Anishinaabe Plants UMMAA