Rush Mat, partially finished
Name
Rush Mat, partially finished
Type
ethnographic
Creator
Bkejwanong/Walpole Island First Nation
Mrs. Hyman (Ada) Smith and Mrs. George (Sarah) Shogonosh
Spatial Coverage
Canada
Walpole Island, Ontario
Date (yyyy-mm-dd)
1933-07
Description
Partly finished. Series of long fibers (rush) braided together along one end with three strands of plant fiber woven into same edge to hold all together. Remainder is loose, unwoven rush fibers. Fiber cordage is attached to edges and ties mat in rolled bundle (from Volney Jones' 1933 field notes).
Identifier
UMMAA 13974
Collector
Volney Jones and Mrs. Hyman (Ada) Smith
UM holding institution
Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
Relation
Kinietz, W. V. & V. H. Jones. 1941-42. Notes on the manufacture of rush mats among the Chippewa. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 27: 525-537.
- Item sets
- Anishinaabe Plants UMMAA
- Site pages
- Smith Family