Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Mocuck |
Other Name |
birchbark mocuck |
Catalog Number |
1790 |
Artist |
Penobscot Ancestor |
Nation/Culture |
Penobscot |
Title |
Birchbark Mocuck |
Date |
ca. 1835 |
Description |
Large mocuck. Thick walled single piece of birchbark with seams tightly-sewn with root. Carved wooden rim wrapped with root (two stitches missing). Sewn bark cover with root sewn "X" in center. Undecorated. Moosehide thong handle. From David Moses Bridges: Summer bark. One piece folded construction lashed with spruce root. Scarphed cedar rim support on inside, split section of root on outside, lashed with parallel stitch that tapers to a point at each of the side seams. Cover is double-layered, with one side joined to a coiled inner rim 76 cm by 2.3 cm, joined with a parallel stitch every 3 cm or so. Two layers of cover joined by large cross stitch at the center and a diagonal stitch around the edges. A moosehide thong serves as a handle. The cover was formerly tied to the body with one thong. Stains on inside may be from berries. Presented by Penobscot Indians to John Perry, a surveyor living in Orono, in 1835. It descended to his son William S. Perry in 1846 and to the latter's son, Curtis A. Perry, Bridgton, Maine, in 1873. Curtis Perry kept it for fifty six years and gave it to the museum in September, 1929 (secured through Herbert A. Richardson, Woodfords, Maine). |
Medium/Material |
birchbark, spruce root, moosehide, cedar |
Dimensions |
H-10.236 L-9.843 Dia-5.709 inches |
Collection |
Abbe Museum Permanent Collection |
Source |
See notes in individual records |
Local Context |
Attribution Incomplete CI Label Open to Collaborate CI Label |