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