Black Ash Log

Title

Black Ash Log

Rights

Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Type

botanical

Creator

Bkejwanong/Walpole Island First Nation

Levi Sturgeon

Date

1933-07-08

Description

Bought from William George for $0.75. It was considered by Sturgeon to be a little too crooked, but was selected by him as the best of a group of six or eight trees which were examined. The others were thought to be too knotty. The rings of this tree were considered by him to be thin, pliable, and of good texture. The tree was about thirty feet tall, it being about fourteen feet to the first limb. The log was seven feet ten inches long when cut, and the remainder of the trunk to the first limb was discarded as it was too knotty. 5 inches at the diameter at the base, 3.5 inches in diameter at top, having twenty rings. The tree was cut about 6 inches above the ground (from Volney Jones' 1933 field notes, Field no. 112).

Place

Canada

Walpole Island, Ontario

Alternative Title

Fraxinus nigra

Identifier

UMMAA 13940

Relation

UMMAA 13967 is the leaves and twigs from this log.

Provenance

Volney Jones and Mrs. Hyman (Ada) Smith