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sewed with spruce roots. The "molded sugar" {zi'ga'igun) was packed 

 in cones of birch bark (fig. 5) fastened with tiny wooden pegs and 



hung by narrow strips 

 of bark ; several of these 

 cones were sometimes 

 hung together. A 

 duck's bill was fre- 

 quently used to hold 

 the "molded sugar." 

 A tliird method of pre- 

 paring the sugar was 

 in the form of a sticky 

 gum or "taffy" Q)%g%- 

 lluwi'zigun),\d\\Qh. was 

 placed in small folded 

 packets of birch bark 

 and tied with strips of 

 the bark. At the close 

 of the sugar-making 

 the Chippewa went to 

 their summer camps 

 (pi. 38), which were usually situated on the shores of lakes. In the 

 illustration a man is shown mending his canoe by holding a charred 

 stick near the pitch which covers the seams; the heat softens the 

 pitch so that it can be rubbed into the seams with the fmgers^ making 

 them watertisrht. 



Fig. 5. Birch-bark cone filled with maple sugar. 



No. 117. "My Travels" 



Sung by Mec'kawiga^bau 



Voice J — 88 

 Drdm J = 88 

 (Drum-rhythm similar to No. 19) 



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