Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID # |
1956.015.024 |
Object Name |
Sherd |
Title |
First Nations Rimsherd |
Lexicon category |
10: Unclassifiable Artifacts |
Made |
Unknown |
Place of Origin |
Brookeholm, Owen Sound and Township of Georgian Bluffs, Grey County? |
Description |
First Nations pottery rim sherd with four scored horizontally running lines, and below them, a horizontally running row of triangular punctations (small end of the triangle to the left, wide end to the right). |
Provenance |
Aubrey Holmes told museum staff that this was collected in 1879 by his father, George Holmes, from near graves at Newash (the Brookeholm or Brooke area of Owen Sound), Grey County. In a 1992 telephone conversation with Joan Hyslop, Melba Morris Croft, who conversed with Aubrey Holmes, said that he had told her that the graves were located at the intersection of 23rd St. and 3rd Avenue West, Owen Sound (Brooke area). Archaeologist Bill Fitzgerald wonders if they were found at the Mary Miller Park site? It last belonged to Aubrey Holmes of Owen Sound. |
Collection |
First Nations, Archaeological Collection |
Material |
Clay |
Dimensions |
W-3.819 L-2.953 inches |
Found |
Brookeholm, Owen Sound and Township of Georgian Bluffs, Grey County |
People |
Holmes, George |
Function |
This rimsherd would have once been part of a clay pot. Most of the First Nations ceramicists long ago were female. |