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Birchbark
Bucket
Penobscot, about
1835
26 cm high, 25 cm square at bottom, 14.5 cm diameter at
top
This bucket is made from a single piece of birchbark,
folded and sewn with spruce root. The bail is a strip
of tanned moose hide. The bucket is elegant in its simple
lines, from a circle at its top to nearly perfectly
square at its base. The simple lid is made from two
circles of birchbark, to which a perfectly fitting,
inset collar is attached.
An unknown Penobscot presented
this bucket to John Perry in about 1835. Mr. Perry lived
in Orono, Maine and worked as a surveyor. He may very
well have worked for one of the companies responsible
for opening up vast regions of traditional Penobscot
territory to the lumbering industry. The bucket was
passed down in Mr. Perry’s family until his grandson,
Curtis A. Perry, donated it to the Abbe Museum in 1929.
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