- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Mat creaser.
- Long description
- Mat creaser. Crescent shaped piece of wood with projections at right angles from either pointed end. There is a central, rounded projection in the direction of the pointed ends.
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Coast Salish
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1874
- Date collected
- Prior to 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 12 mm, Width: max 54 mm, Length: max 157 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.46.23.2
- Research and responses
Loom model. Small pine frame with partially woven cloth of mountain goat hair. Fibre identified by Dr. Burnham of Royal Ontario Museum, 10.12.1963. NB The wooden object associated with this loom in the sketch in PR IV 109 and described as '?beater' has nothing to do with this loom - it is a mat creaser. No beaters were used with these looms; manipulation was by fingers and very occasionally on a border, a comb. [LM]
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