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Unidentified Man Tapping Maple Trees

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Location Description: 

Minnesota

Protocol: 
Ziibiwing Center Public Access
Community: 
Ziibiwing Center
Category: 
Connections to the Land
Tribe(s): 
Collections: 
Minnesota Anishinaabe
Original Date Description: 
circa 1935
Creator: 
unknown
Source: 
Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of the American Indian
Publisher: 
Ziibiwing Center
Identifier: 
P19935
Type: 
Print
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Unidentified man inserting a metal(?) tap into the trunk of a sugar maple tree. An axe is to his side; a sap cup or mokuk has been placed under the tap; he is posed in a wooded area.

Part of a series of postcards on processing maple sugar, P19935-41; locale, Tribe and date per the Minnesota Historical Society.

Location Description: 

Minnesota

Title: 
TAPPING MAPLE TREES
Protocol: 
National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Public Access
Community: 
National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)
Category: 
Connections to the Land
Tribe(s): 
Collections: 
Minnesota Anishinaabe
Original Date Description: 
circa 1935
Creator: 
unknown
Rights: 
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Source: 
Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of the American Indian
Publisher: 
National Museum of the American Indian
Identifier: 
P19935
Type: 
Print