Birch Bark Container used to Carry Water and Berries

Tanana
Dene (Athabascan)
Subarctic

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collected 1929-1930

Birch bark, vegetable fiber, and leather

Overall: 7 1/2 × 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 × 9 13/16 in. (19 × 15 × 21 × 25 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor Robert A. McKennan, Class of 1925

30.2.4621

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Food Processing

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Subarctic

Not on view

Course History

NAS 37, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Medeia Krisztina C. DeHass, Spring 2013

NAS 37, ANTH 47, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Winter 2014

ANTH 12.11, NAS 30, Arctic Crossroads: Its Peoples, Cultures, and History, William Fitzhugh, Winter 2015

ANTH 12.11, NAS 30, Arctic Crossroads: Its Peoples, Cultures, and History, William Fitzhugh, Winter 2015

NAS 37, ANTH 37, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Spring 2015

Publication History

Robert A. McKennan, The Upper Tanana Indians, Yale University Publications in Anthropology, Number 55, New Haven: Department of Anthropology, Yale University, 1959, p. 43, fig. 3E.

Provenance

Collected by Professor Robert Addison McKennan [Dartmouth Class of 1925, 1903-1982) [during his field research studying the Tanana and Chandalar people of the Upper Tanana River, Alaska], 1929-1930; given to present collection, 1930.

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