Birch Bark Picture Frame
Name/Title
Birch Bark Picture FrameEntry/Object ID
L2024.3.117Description
Heart-shaped, birch bark object with square void in the middle. Two layers of birch bark stitched together with wood splint binding.Use
Picture frameContext
This piece of tourist art is probably a minor art form from the Highgate Springs Indian basket camps three miles to the south in the USA, since it employs both ash splint sewing and sweetgrass borders. The idea is that a photograph can be slid between the bark front and back and show in the ash and sweetgrass rimed window. It is one of the few examples of birchbark work that shows the white outside of the bark, probably catering to the tourists’ need to have something “woodsy” hanging on the wall.Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural ConservancyMade/Created
Date made
circa 1920Place
State/Province
VermontCountry
United States of AmericaContinent
North AmericaEthnography
Culture/Tribe
Abenaki
Native American