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Ziinzibaakwad - maple sugar

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Description: 

Photograph shows Native American Chippewa woman boiling syrup, probably maple syrup, on an open fire.

Cultural Narrative: 

It looks to be late spring and toward the end of the sap season, there is no snow on the ground as there would be at the begining. I see this woman smoking her pipe and poking her fire to boil down her sap to, most likely sugar. There are scraps of wiigwas or birchbark on the ground. These could have been supplies used to make a mukuk to catch the sap or a birch bark cone to store the sugar. I see pieces of maybe spruce root and wiigop or bass wood that would be used for securing sugar cones. It used to be that women would select and own the group of maple trees called a sugarbush that she would gather sap from to support her family.

Protocol: 
Ziibiwing Center Public Access
Community: 
Ziibiwing Center
Category: 
Photos of Anishinabek, Connections to the Land, Economic Development
Collections: 
Sugar Bush (Ziisibaakodokaaning)
Original Date Description: 
Between 1908 and 1912
Creator: 
Reed, Roland
Contributor: 
Anita Heard
Rights: 
It is the user's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division's collections.
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Source: 
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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Publisher: 
Ziibiwing Center
Identifier: 
LOT 13022, LC-DIG-ds-14383
Subject: 
Anishinaabe--1900s, Anishinaabe--1910s
Type: 
photograph, gelatin silver
Format: 
sheet 35 x 27 cm
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Description: 

Photograph shows Native American Chippewa woman boiling syrup, probably maple syrup, on an open fire.

Title: 
Boiling Syrup
Protocol: 
Library of Congress (LOC) Public Access
Community: 
Library Of Congress (LOC)
Category: 
Photos of Anishinabek, Connections to the Land, Economic Development
Tribe(s): 
Collections: 
Sugar Bush (Ziisibaakodokaaning)
Original Date Description: 
Between 1908 and 1912
Creator: 
Reed, Roland
Rights: 
For reproductions and permissions other than for personal or classroom use, please contact the Library of Congress (https://ask.loc.gov/#s-la-box-83050-container-tab1)
Traditional Knowledge Labels: 
Source: 
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
External Links: 
Publisher: 
Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs
Identifier: 
LOT 13022, LC-DIG-ds-14383
Subject: 
Anishinaabe--1900s, Anishinaabe--1910s
Type: 
photograph, gelatin silver
Format: 
sheet 35 x 27 cm