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craft of both men and women formed part of the objective material 

 collected for illustrating this report. The making of birchbark 



Fig. ioi. — Frame on which liirchbark canoe is made. Photograph by 



Miss Densmore. 



Fig. 102. — Process of making a liirchbark canoe. Photograph liy 

 Miss Densmore. 



Utensils in graceful outlines is rapidly becoming a lost art among the 

 Chippewa, and many examples of this work were obtained. 



