Notes and sketches regarding birch bark containers, including one letter from Gene Weltfish. Concerns multiple cultures including Secwepemc (Shuswap), Dakelh (Carrier), Nlaka'pamux (Thompson), Gwich'in (Kutchin/Loucheux), Slave, Kawchottine (Hare), and others.
Notes and photographs relating to birch bark containers, some relating to collections of the American Museum of Natural History. Includes photos of 4 Kutenai (Ktunaxa, Kootenay, Kootenai) baskets. Includes letter of Bella Weitzner to Speck, June 2, 1941.
Notes and photographs relating to birch bark containers from the Temagami Algonquin, some from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History.
Notes and photographs relating to birch bark containers, some from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History, Denver Art Museum, and Reading Museum. Concerns Ojibwe birch bark containers from White Earth, Bois Forte, and Long Lac.
Letter from J. Allan Burgesse of Hudson's Bay Company, primarily regarding Innu ("Montagnais") birch bark baskets. Images note: Art design filed by Frank G. Speck with Inuit material. Pencil sketches of double curve motif. (Rationale for original cataloging inclusion in Inuit section unclear.)
Notes and photographs of birch bark containers, relating to the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Relates to Cree, Mistassini, Algonquin (Rivière Desert, Maniwaki), and includes a reprint Vincent Petrullo's "Decorative Art on Birch-Bark Containers from the Algonquin River du Lièvre Band."
