Melon Basket

Title

Melon Basket

Rights

Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Type

ethnographic

Creator

Bkejwanong/Walpole Island First Nation

Levi and Winifred Sturgeon

Date

1933-07-07

Description

A "melon" type basket made primarily by Mr. Levi Sturgeon. The dyeing and weaving with yellow and red splints was done by Mrs. Sturgeon. The splints are woven in near the handle-basket junctures (from Volney Jones' 1933 field notes, Field no. 109).

Place

Canada

Walpole Island, Ontario

Identifier

UMMAA 13952

Relation

Basket Frame

Black Ash Splints, dyed red

Black Ash Splints, dyed yellow

Black Ash Splints, dyed brown

Provenance

Volney Jones and Mrs. Hyman (Ada) Smith