Ojibwe miniature birchbark sap bucket

Titles: Ojibwe miniature birchbark sap bucket (Supplied title)

Description: Miniature Ojibwe sap bucket formed from a single piece of birchbark folded together at the ends and sewn with basswood strips to form an oval dish. It has the white bark on the exterior and the red inner bark on the interior. Written on the bottom exterior are "wa" and "15[cents symbol]". Full size buckets of this type were used by the Ojibwe for gathering sugar maple sap to be refined into syrup or sugar. Collected by Harry and Jeannette Ayer.

Dates

• Not earlier than 1900 - Not later than 1959 (Creation)

Creation

• collected by: Ayer, Jeannette Ora Foster
• collected by: Ayer, Harry Darius

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 10000.49

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections, The Harry and Jeannette Ayer Collection.

Notes

• Jeannette O. and Harry D. Ayer Ojibwe Collection.

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 1 1/4 inches height
• 3 inches width
• 4 inches depth

Subjects