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1912.38.7.1

Rectangular birch bark case [.1] and lid [.2] embroidered with moose-hair in floral designs. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 15/2/2006]

1912.38.7.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Rectangular birch bark case [.1] and lid [.2] embroidered with moose-hair in floral designs. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 15/2/2006]
Geographical reference
Canada
Northern America > North America > Canada
Quebec Lorette
Cultural groups
Huron-Wendat
Person
Field collector F.C. Woodforde
Field collector Francis Cardew Woodforde
PRM source F.C. Woodforde
PRM source Francis Cardew Woodforde
Date / Period
Date made: 1850-1875
Date collected
circa 1865
Acquisition information
Donated: 1912
Materials and processes
Material Birch Bark Wood Plant, Material Moose Hair Animal, Material Plant Fibre, Process Embroidered
Dimensions
Length: max 100 mm total, Width: max 61 mm, Thick: max 20 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1912.38.7.1 Accession number: 1912.38.7.2
Research and responses

This is a calling card case; see GRASAC entry below. [L Peers, 29/04/2009]

Originally entered on database as Huron. [CW 11 6 99]

See biography of Francis Cardew Woodforde for reasons why the Canadian objects might have come to us via FC Woodforde [AP 08/05/2007]

Examined by the GRASAC research team on 10 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 agreed this was Wendat and identified it as a calling card box commonly made for sale around 1860 to 1865. The inner liner was confirmed as birchbark bound with animal hair that has been tacked down with thread, embroidered with interwoven chequerboard and cross motifs, a design used on birchbark containers. [for information on Project see researchers file GRASAC]. [ZM 19/12/2007] [L Peers 14/01/2008]

Final GRASAC description: Box, calling card. 'Materials: This box is made of birchbark with a birchbark inner liner. It is embroidered with moosehair in reddish orange, orange,ivory, pink, blue, and shades of green. The edges are bound with animal hair tacked down with black thread. Motifs and Images: On the edging an interwoven checkerboard cross motif appears at intervals, made of brown hair with animal hair coming thrown. The moosehair embroidery is in floral designs.' [L Peers, 29/04/2009]

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