In the spring, during the final muskrat hunt, the Ojibwa women usually left the men for the maple groves where they would make sugar. What stages in the process are shown in this engraving? The Indians bartered some of the sugar to the traders. What manufactured tools and utensils appear here which might have been obtained from previous exchanges with the traders?
Courtesy: Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes of the United States, 2 (1852):58
