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
- Item sets
- Anishinaabe Plants UMMAA
