Comb Basket

Title

Comb Basket

Rights

Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Type

ethnographic

Creator

Bkejwanong/Walpole Island First Nation

Myra Greenbird

Date

1933-07-01

Description

Open weave. Loose weave three-directional basket technique. This type of weave is said by Mrs. Smith to have been learned by her mother from the Ottawa. Mrs. Greenbird seems to be the only person on the island doing it at present. The carrying basket in Eddie Pinnance's barn is of this weave (from Volney Jones' 1933 field notes).

Place

Canada

Walpole Island, Ontario

Identifier

UMMAA 13980

Provenance

Volney Jones and Mrs. Hyman (Ada) Smith