Rope, made of tree bark. [ASh [OPS move] 27/6/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Rope, made of tree bark. [ASh [OPS move] 27/6/2017]
Long description: A plaited rope made of the inner bark of a tree, perhaps the willow. Used in the boats on the Kotzebue Sound, Bering Strait. It is made of a plait of three strands. [ASh [OPS move] 27/6/2017]
Geographical reference: United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America; Alaska Bering Strait Kotzebue Sound
Cultural groups: Inuit (Greenland); Inuit
Person: Field collector Frederick William Beechey; Field collector HMS Blossom; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: On or before 1826
Date collected: ?On or before 1826
Acquisition information: Transferred: 11/03/1886
Materials and processes: Material Bark Fibre Plant, Process Plaited
Dimensions: Diameter: max 392 mm, Depth: max 75 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.757 Other numbers: 356 757
Research and responses: This object does not appear in the list of Beechey objects in Collectors Miscellaneous XI 71 - 75 [AP 20/7/99]
Please note that there was no further information about Beechey on the Donor Index cards at the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities. [L.Ph 23/3/2004]

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