Hey Everyone,
I hope your Holiday’s are going well and you have a great new year. I want to thank you all for reading and watching my blog’s over this past year. This year has been great for the blog, thousands of visitor’s have come to the blog and lots of them have added the blog to their feeds and that’s great! I am looking forward to this new year.
I just wanted to give you a look at some of our collection’s here at Wampanoag Homesite. All of our collection’s are reproduction’s and not originals. I will in this blog show you some bowl’s and spoon’s but we have so much more in our collection’s and I will show you them soon. We make these bowl’s and spoon’s out of Burl’s (these are those knot’s you see on trees) . We make the bowl’s and spoon’s here at Plimoth Plantation most time’s right in front of the public. We burn them out with hot coal’s from the fire’s.
Here’s a bowl made out of a cherry burl it has a effigy of a bear on it. This bowl is more than 15 year’s old . This is a serving bowl.
Here is another serving bowl made out of cherry burl. This has an effigy of a face on it.
This bowl is made out of oak wood. I would like you guy’s to take a guess what this bowl has for an effigy on it, it’s a water animal that’s all I am telling you. So Please leave a comment with your guess at the end of this blog.
This is a spoon made out of moose antler and the handle was carved to look like a effigy of a duck head.
This spoon was also made out of moose antler and has a effigy of a turtle on the end of it.
This spoon was made out of maple wood and has an effigy of a hawk on the end handle.
Well everyone these is just a few artifact’s we use in the Wampanoag Homesite. I will in upcoming blog’s show you more of our artifact’s in our collection’s.
I hope you like this blog let me know, look at the end of the blog you will see a comment area please let me know what you think.
Thanks
Tim
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how do you determined which effigy to place on the dish or spoon? Would you know the reason for each?
Its a turtle.
hey Janet,
Each person who was making the spoon or bowl may used a effigy to kind of sign there work sometimes. I also think it depends on how much wood is left at the end maybe the shape of the wood to. I also could be what that person is good at carving too or likes carving. Thanks janet!
Hey Will,
It is not a turtle will sorry! try again!
hey tim,
super cool stuff!!! i’m in the middle of burning out my own bowl out of a maple burl. any tips or suggestions would be most appreciated. the critter on the bowl is an otter i’d say. talk to you later,
dan
Dan,
You got it Dan it is a otter on his back thats the effigy on the bowl. Now your bowl,Dan is the wood green? (meaning a freshly cut down and wet). Maple is a good wood is it a burl? burls are the best and green too. if you can start a fire and use hard woods in fire and use those hot coal to burt it out, blow on the coal to this will help ok good luck with the bowl send me a picture of it when your done with it.
no it’s not green. my brother, my wife, and a couple friends and i went camping the end of september. while we were gathering fire wood i noticed a burl at the bottom of a maple tree. the tree had snapped off a couple feet up and had been dead a while. i started burning it out just before we got the snow. i just built a fire on top instead of using the coals. how do you smooth the bowl to finish the bowl? and do you use bear oil, or mineral oil to seal? e-mail me sometime.
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