Shifting Basket
Name
Shifting Basket
Type
ethnographic
Creator
Bkejwanong/Walpole Island First Nation
Elizabeth Colwell
Spatial Coverage
Canada
Walpole Island, Ontario
Date (yyyy-mm-dd)
1933-07-22
Description
Sifting basket made by Elizabeth Colwell (spelling in Jones' notes: Caldwell), daughter of Mrs. George Shogonosh. Bottom weaved on lap from above -- same weave as Mrs. Greenbird. Sides woven in usual way. Bottom is loose hexagonal weave, top is circular (from Volney Jones' 1933 field notes).
Identifier
UMMAA 13993
Collector
Volney Jones and Mrs. Hyman (Ada) Smith
UM holding institution
Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- Item sets
- Anishinaabe Plants UMMAA
- Site pages
- Shogonosh Family