How to use the Ojibwe People's Dictionary

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Showing Category: sugaring

: Paddle to stir syrup and sugar

: Wooden sugaring trough

: Sap bucket of folded birch bark

: Muffin tin

: Fred and Mary Day making maple sugar, Mille Lacs

: Ojibwe with maple sugar in birchbark containers

: splitting wood at sugar camp

: collecting sap

: dipping an evergreen bough to prevent sap from boiling over

: Building a birch bark tepee at maple sugar camp

: Storage lodge used for storing implements

: Maple sugar in birch bark container

: Indians making maple sugar, Cass Lake

: Ojibway women filling birch bark containers

: Lucy Clark displaying maple sugar birch bark container

: Dorr Family at maple sugar camp

: Dorr Family at maple sugar camp

: Richard Gahbowh's maple sugar camp

: Georgia Sherman at Indian sugar camp

: Chippewa Indians at a sugar camp

: Road into Sugar Bush

: Old Sugar Bush

: Frame of a maple sugar lodge

: Mary Bigwind and Maggie Skinaway making birch bark containers

: Making birch bark sap bucket

: Making birch bark sap bucket, Mille Lacs

: Mrs. John Mink collecting maple sap, Mille Lacs

: Collecting maple sap in pails

: Collecting maple sap, Mille Lacs Indian Reservation

: Maple sugar sap icicle, Mille Lacs

: Frozen sap icicle, Lake Mille Lacs

: Sap dripping at Day's Place, Lake Mille Lacs

: Violet Weyaus Boiling Sap, Lake Mille Lacs

: Stirring Syrup After Boiling, Martin Kegg's, Lake Mille Lacs

: Stirring Maple Syrup, Lake Mille Lacs

: Straining Maple Syrup, Lake Mille Lacs

: Mrs. Day Granulating Maple Sugar

: Granulating Maple Sugar, Lake Mille Lacs

: Martin Kegg pouring sugar into mold

: Sugar cooling at Kegg's Place, Lake Mille Lacs

: FIrewood being prepared for sugaring

: Maple sap being poured

: Maple sap being prepared for transfer

: Pine bough used to control boiling

: Checking a stick for scent

: Boiling maple syrup

: Frozen sap icicle

: Pouring maple syrup

: Collecting Maple sap in pails

: Boiling maple sap

The Ojibwe People's Dictionary is developed and maintained by:
Nora Livesay, Editor
John D. Nichols, Founder and Linguistic Editor

with support and collaboration from the University of Minnesota's Department of American Indian Studies and University Libraries.

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