Comb Basket

Name

Comb Basket

Type

ethnographic

Creator

Bkejwanong/Walpole Island First Nation
Myra Greenbird

Spatial Coverage

Canada
Walpole Island, Ontario

Date (yyyy-mm-dd)

1933-07-01

Description

Open weave. Loose weave three-directional basket technique. This type of weave is said by Mrs. Smith to have been learned by her mother from the Ottawa. Mrs. Greenbird seems to be the only person on the island doing it at present. The carrying basket in Eddie Pinnance's barn is of this weave (from Volney Jones' 1933 field notes).

Identifier

UMMAA 13980

Collector

Volney Jones and Mrs. Hyman (Ada) Smith

UM holding institution

Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
Site pages
Smith Family