Card Case
Wendat (Huron) or Mi'kmaq (Micmac)
Wendat (Huron)
Mi'kmaq (Micmac)
Wabanaki
First Nation
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands
collected about 1851-1902
Birch bark case, embroidered with dyed moosehair and thread
Overall: 3 9/16 × 2 13/16 × 13/16 in. (9 × 7.2 × 2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Porter and Charles Tremain
13.85.1211
Geography
Place Made: Canada, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Case
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2022
GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
SPAN 65.15, Wonderstruck: Archives and the Production of Knowledge in an Unequal World, Silvia Spitta and Barbara Goebel, Summer 2022
Exhibition History
Always in Season: Folk Art and Traditional Culture in Vermont, Vermont Historical Society Museum, Montpelier, Vermont, May 8-November 1, 1982; Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, January 15-March 7, 1983; Christian Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, March 20-April 25, 1983; Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont, May 6-September 15, 1983.
Ancient Native American Pottery, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibitions; Anthropology 32, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Janaury 7-February 9, 1992.
Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition; Anthropology 32, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 13-March 4, 1990.
Native American Designs of the Northern Woodlands, Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 20, 1995-February 9, 1997.
The Arts of Native America, The Eastern Woodland: Algonkian and Iroquois, Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Anthropology and History Collections, East Gallery, Wilson Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 6-November 11, 1979.
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 5–July 22, 2022.
Publication History
Jane C. Beck, Always in Season: Folk Art and Traditional Culture in Vermont, Montpelier, Vermont: Vermont Council on the Arts, 1982, 144 pp., ill. p. 59.
Provenance
Unknown collector; possibly collected by the Missionary Marilla Baker Ingalls (1828-1902); to Porter (1845-1907) and Charles (1843-1922) Tremain, Fayetteville, New York, probably in 1902; given to present collection, after 1904; catalogued, 1913.
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