Model Of Burial Scafford ("Kaski Skwohigan")

National Museum of Natural History

E395272-0

From card: "Obtained 1933 from Harvery Smallboy & John Fletcher. Four vertical stakes, held with top crossbars, sides completely enclosed with horizontal sticks and birchbark on top. Moss over bottom to simulate the natural grass ? whether burial put on top or within this framework."


  • Type of Item burial scaffold model
  • Culture Algonquin

  • Field Collector Rev. John M. Cooper
  • Received from Catholic University Of America

  • Made in Ontario
  • Collected in Ontario

  • Acquisition Date on July 6, 1956

  • Accession Number 211312