Anishinaabe Plants UMMAA

Items

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  Volney Jones

  Volney Jones standing by car in summer 1933 (from 2019 research on photo).
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  Mrs. Hyman (Ada) Smith seated

  Ada Aquash Smith (Mrs Hyman Smith) making basswood twine (from 2019 research on photo).
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  Mrs. Hyman (Ada) Smith removing bark from a log

  Ada Aquash Smith (Mrs Hyman Smith) stripping a log, possibly basswood, to make twine to use in the rush mat. The frame for making the rush mat is behind her (from 2019 research on photo).
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  Mrs. Hyman (Ada) Smith stripping log

  Ada Aquash Smith (Mrs Hyman Smith) stripping log to make basswood twine (from 2019 research on photo).
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  Mrs. Hyman (Ada) Smith with dried rushes

  Ada Aquash Smith (Mrs Hyman Smith) seated on ground with rushes prepared for making mat (UMMAA 13974) (from 2019 research on photo).
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  Levi Sturgeon pounding log

  Sturgeon pounding log (from Volney Jones' 1933 field notes).
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  Levi Sturgeon using his shaving horse

  Levi Sturgeon demonstrating how to use a shaving horse (from 2019 research on photo).
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  Rush mat with the sisters who made it

  Ada Aquash Smith (Mrs. Hyman Smith) is seated in a white dress, holding a basket in a style made by her daughter, Myra Greenbird. Ada prepared the bulrushes for the mat that her sister, Sarah Aquash Shogonosh (pointing at the mat), wove the top edge of (from 2019 research on photo).
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  Winnie and Levi Sturgeon making baskets

  Mr. and Mrs. Sturgeon. He (Levi) is weaving. She (Winnie) is splitting splints (from Volney Jones' 1933 field notes).
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  Man with open weave basket

  May be the basket described in notes for UMMAA 13980 (from 2019 research on photo).
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  Shaving horse for basket splints

  Levi Sturgeon's shaving horse (from Volney Jones' 1933 field notes).