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BibliographyVincent, Gilbert et al. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2000, p.69.
Phillips, Ruth B. "Quilled Bark from the Central Great Lakes: A Transcultural History." In Studies in American Indian Art: A Memorial Tribute to Norman Feder. Austria/Seattle: Adolf Holzhausens Nachfolger/ University of Washington Press, 2000, pp.122-123 [general reference to ex-Elgin Great Lakes quilled birchbark pieces].
Phillips, Ruth B. Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998, p. 298.
Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 75.
Culture
Odawa
Basket
Date1847-1854
DimensionsOverall: 5 3/4 × 5 1/4 × 8 1/2 in. (14.6 × 13.3 × 21.6 cm)
Object numberT0260
Credit LineGift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw
Photograph by Richard Walker
ProvenanceBelieved to have been given as a presentation piece to James Bruce, the 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine, governor-general of Canada, during his residency 1847-1854; descended in the Elgin family to the 11th Earl of Elgin and the 15th Earl of Kincardine, Dunfermline, ScotlandBibliographyVincent, Gilbert et al. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2000, p.69.
Phillips, Ruth B. "Quilled Bark from the Central Great Lakes: A Transcultural History." In Studies in American Indian Art: A Memorial Tribute to Norman Feder. Austria/Seattle: Adolf Holzhausens Nachfolger/ University of Washington Press, 2000, pp.122-123 [general reference to ex-Elgin Great Lakes quilled birchbark pieces].
Phillips, Ruth B. Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998, p. 298.
Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 75.
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