Rush mat with the sisters who made it

Title: Rush mat with the sisters who made it
Rights: Bentley Historical Library
Type: photograph
Creator: Bkejwanong/Walpole Island First Nation; Volney Jones, photographer
Date: 1933-07
Description: 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).
Place: Canada; Walpole Island, Ontario
Identifier: BHL HS18816
Provenance: Volney Jones

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Rush Mat, partially finished

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