Bowl

Name/Title

Bowl

Entry/Object ID

L2024.3.68

Description

Bowl fashioned from folded and stitched birchbark. The rim of the bowl is made from cut and bent wood and bound with spruce root.

Context

This small, heavily oxidized bark bowl from southern Maine exhibits many early traits including the rectangular cut & shaved rim base and the careful spruce root wrapping that is almost all gone from years of hard use, evidence of native use rather than an early example of tourist art.

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Abenaki Cultural Conservancy

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1780 - circa 1830

Ethnography

Culture/Tribe

Abenaki
Native American

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Bowl

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Vessel

Nomenclature Class

Containers

Nomenclature Category

Category 07: Distribution & Transportation Objects

Dimensions

Height

2 in

Diameter

5-1/4 in

Material

Birch