Waist worn when tying wild rice

Summary:

44th Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology - Plate 36-a.

Cultural Narrative:

Women winnowed the rice by shaking a small amount of rice in a large birchbark tray for the unwanted shells to be blown away in the wind. The rice was stored in bags of woven cedar bark, a layer of hay place over the rice, and sewed across the top. Rice was also packed in the skins of raccoons and fawns, in the webbed feet of ducks, and in birchbark mococks, and stored away in holes in the earth as storage caches. (Carrie Alberta Lyford's "Ojibwa Crafts" book; page 27)

Title:

Waist worn when tying wild rice

Protocol:

National Anthropological Archives Public Access

Community:

National Anthropological Archives

Category:

Connections to the Land

Collections:

Manoomin

Original Date:

1914

Rights:

For reproductions and permissions other than for personal or classroom use, please contact the National Anthropological Archives, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (naa@si.edu)

Traditional Knowledge Labels:

Source:

National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland

Identifier:

NAA INV 9286800 OPPS NEG 596 E 9

Type:

photograph


	Created: Friday, April 3, 2020 - 10:15 Tags: rice


	TK Seasonal Label (TK S) This label is being used to indicate that this material traditionally and usually is heard and/or utilized at a particular time of year and in response to specific seasonal changes and conditions. For instance, many important ceremonies are held at very specific times of the year. This label is being used to indicate sophisticated relationships between land and knowledge creation. It is also being used to highlight the relationships between recorded material and the specific contexts where it derives, especially the interconnected and embodied teachings that it conveys.

TK Seasonal Label (TK S)