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Ojibway Wooden bowl & Spoon. (Haupt Coll & del)

Bowl

    diameter              10¼ inches
    depth                   3 1/16   "

Spoon length 8 3/4 "

   bowl diam.             4¼        "
   width  of handle, top ½       "
    "        "    "   bottom  2      "
   thickness " "            5/16   "

Dakota (Sioux) Wooden bowl & buffalo horn Spoon. (Haupt Coll & del) bowl length 10½ inches

       width        8 1/8     "
        depth       2 1/8     "
    thickness        6/8     "

Spoon length 6 5/8 "

     handle         3 1/8    "
     bowl              3½     "
    tassle              6½     "

Birds eye maple Before the days of "white man" the indians of the [?] [?] Ojibway and Dakota used bowls and dishes made of wood. The bowl and spoon from the Haupt Collection of Ojibway manufacture is made of birds eye maple and is of a round shape with high sides on to the bowl. the spoon is made with a rather flat bowl and of a shape similar to that of the Maple sugar ladle only of course smaller. The bowl is nearly four inches deep and a little over ten inches wide at the top. such wooden bowls are now extremely rare among the Ojibway the china & tin plates of the white man has entirely superseded them However such dishes are preserved and handed down in the family for generations. This one was procured at Lac du Flambeau, in Wisconsin and shows signs of great age. The spoon is very redolent with greece and the edges show [?] signs of use. It is the custom when the "Great Medicine Men" meet together to have a feast and eat from such wooden dishes they are kept for that purpose and are held sacred. They believe that in such feasts the Great spirit comes down and eats with them. this specimen was an "heirloom" for many years. The wood is "[?]" burl and is strong. The wooden dish made by the Dakotas is a more elliptical and flatter article and unlike the other has a projection and holes in it by which it may be hung up. We have noticed among the Dakota that all their utensils are provided with the means of hanging them up off the ground. we would never accuse the indian of being either so careful or cleanly as to take such precautions. let us as think that the realization of the fact that did they not do so any thing that had an suspicion of greese or fat about it would be stollen away by the dogs and other vermin. The Ojibway have more permanent dwellings and keep their utensils on a shelf or store them away out of reach. The Dakota [?] bowl is a specimen procured at the Lower Brulé Agency