Black Ash Splints, dyed yellow

Title: Black Ash Splints, dyed yellow
Rights: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
Type: botanical
Creator: Bkejwanong/Walpole Island First Nation; Mrs. Levi (Winifred) Sturgeon
Date: 1933-07-07
Description: Narrow black ash basket splints cut with a stripper by Mrs. Sturgeon. The strip from which they were cut had been previously dyed with a dye said to be Diamond brand, yellow. The dyeing process was not observed (from Volney Jones' 1933 field notes, Field no. 100).
Place: Canada; Walpole Island, Ontario
Identifier: UMMAA 13948
Provenance: Volney Jones and Mrs. Hyman (Ada) Smith

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