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
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- Smith Family