Installing the Headboard

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

Subjects	History Cultural Studies Literature Native American Studies Regional Studies
Date	1939
Related Section	Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Keywords	Lake Superior construction birch bark Minnesota Grand Portage Ojibwe
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Rightsholder	Minnesota Historical Society
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In 1939, Ojibwe tribal members at Grand Portage, near the border between the United States and Canada on Lake Superior, completed a birch-bark canoe in the traditional manner as part of a Works Progress Administration arts program. Here a headboard is installed.

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