Penobscot burl bowl, ca. 1900
Item 23486 info
Hudson Museum, Univ. of Maine
Maine Indians used birchbark or wooden bowls to eat out of and to mix cornbread in.
Some of the bowls were 18" in diameter or larger.
This bowl has Pauline Shay's name written in it. In 1913, Shay married Andrew Sockalexis, the marathon runner, and after his death she operated a basket and novelty shop on Indian Island.
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