Mi'kmaq basket - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 99927 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 104.00 OLEACEAE Fraxinus nigra | Entry Book Number | 32.2017 | |
| Artefact Name | Mi'kmaq basket | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Canada | TDWG Region | Canada | ||
| Parts Held | Mi'kmaq basket | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Mi'kmaq basketUse: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Butcher, Mary | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 16/11/2017 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | From Black Ash (pounded by an electric pounder) and Hierochloe odorata (sweet grass). Glooscap is a mi'kmaq god. Made originally for the Victorian market. Diamond shaped embellishments. Growth rings from ash, then split in half, then again and so on., Then each side is scraped against a knife, particularly on the inner edge of each ring. [Brushes: most mi'kmaq houses have them & they put them in steam to regain the smell. Vanilla smell of grass only released when pulled.] Black Ash has since [object, collected] been decimated by a beetle introduced from China. | ||||