Setting a Frame

From Canoes: A Natural History in North America by Mark Neuzil and Norman Sims

Creator(s)	Ingersoll, T. W.
Subjects	History Cultural Studies Literature Native American Studies Regional Studies
Date	ca. 1895
Related Section	Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Keywords	construction birch bark Ojibwe
Content Type	photograph
Citable Link	Citable Link

Rightsholder	Minnesota Historical Society
Copyright Status	in-copyright
Rights Granted	non-exclusive, world-wide, perpetual
Credit Line	Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society, E97.35 p19.
Holding Contact	Minnesota Historical Society

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The setting of a frame for a birch-bark canoe involved preparing the ground, driving in stakes, and sliding in the bark and attaching a frame in the general shape of the boat. Photograph taken ca. 1885 at an Ojibwe camp.

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