Container
Name/Title
ContainerEntry/Object ID
L2024.3.66Description
Round birchbark container with square foot. Bent wood rim with spruce root binding. Incised floral and pendant toothed-triangles arranged in three rings around the outside of the vessel.Context
This small crudely constructed and etched birch bark basket from Cambridge, Lamoille County, Vermont has pendant toothed designs on the side shown in the photo, as well as floral designs on the other side, a rarity anywhere in the Wabanaki area. It has very significant patination and use wear, including spruce root lashing loss. This basket is from an area that had documentation of having been a place of bark container manufacture: ... as late as 1840, a number of families (of) St. Francis Indians came into the town (Cambridge, VT) and encamped and made ... bark dishes for a while (vermontgenealogy.com/lamoille/Indians).Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural ConservancyMade/Created
Date made
circa 1840Place
Village
CambridgeTown
CambridgeCounty
Lamoille CountyState/Province
VermontCountry
United States of AmericaContinent
North AmericaEthnography
Culture/Tribe
Abenaki
Native American