« Two pot hooks of alder twigs are bent at one end to form a loop and lashed with spruce root. At the other end a hook is formed by a small branch (fig. 5c). » Vanstone, James W. "The Speck Collection of Montagnais Material Culture from the Lower St. Lawrence Drainage, Quebec." Fieldiana. Anthropology. New Series, No. 5 (October 29, 1982), p.9, fig 5c (p.33).

Gift of Mrs. Richard Nunn and Lucy Trevett.

Collection of the Portland Art Museum.

"DRAWING SHADOWS TO STONE": PHOTOGRAPHING NORTH PACIFIC PEOPLES (1897-1902) (AMNH, NEW YORK, NY, USA, 1997)

Open rimmed birch bark basket, sewn at sides with pale yellow root strips and stitched around rim with pieces of reddish-brown bark underneath and woven into strips of pale yellow root. Decorative row of plant motif designs around two longest sides. Darker side of bark on outside, paler inside. Signed, dated on base.

« Two pot hooks of alder twigs are bent at one end to form a loop and lashed with spruce root. At the other end a hook is formed by a small branch (fig. 5c). » Vanstone, James W. "The Speck Collection of Montagnais Material Culture from the Lower St. Lawrence Drainage, Quebec." Fieldiana. Anthropology. New Series, No. 5 (October 29, 1982), p.9, fig 5c (p.33).