- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bass-wood bark bag, very old, of fine weave. Purch. Chippewa Reservation 1939. Woven bag with a rectangular flat shape and a 'flap-over' top. [JN 24/5/99]
- Long description
- Description by Marcia Anderson, Chief Curator, Minnesota Historical Society, at 1999 visit: The ground warp is of single fibres (x2) twisted together. Nice pattern. [JN 21/2/2000] Unusual twining technique. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 4/1/2006]
- Geographical reference
- Minnesota
- Cultural groups
- Chippewa
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1939
- Date collected
- 1939
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1939
- Materials and processes
- Material Bark Fibre Plant, Process Beaten, Process Twined Woven, Process Basketry
- Dimensions
- Width: max 275 mm, Length: max 234 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1939.6.16B
- Research and responses
Related Documents File - Includes 'List of objects bought for the Pitt Rivers Museum by Beatrice Blackwood, Summer 1939' and receipts from 'Mr. Fake . . . Park Studio, Park Rapids, Minnesota.' [GI 11/12/2001]
Examined by the GRASAC research team on 12 December 2007 as part of a research project to create a digital database. This will incorporate information about collections of indigenous material culture from the Great Lakes region of North America that are housed in a number of museums on several continents; see https://icslac.carleton.ca/grasac/. The group identified the details of construction as weave that alternates fine and wider strips to achieve decorative striped effect; the warp is fine and twisted, weft untwisted. The North American Nation of origin is believed to be Anishinaabeg because of the basswood bag style and that it was collected from Ojibwe in Minnesota. [see researchers file GRASAC]. [ZM 13/12/2007]
1939.6.16B
Bass-wood bark bag, very old, of fine weave. Purch. Chippewa Reservation 1939. Woven bag with a rectangular flat shape and a 'flap-over' top. [JN 24/5/99]
1939.6.16B
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