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Ojibway Birchbark bucket. (Haupt coll.& del) height 5 1/2 inches diameter of rim 5 3/8 " length of side 5 1/4 " bale, or handle 8 1/2 "

Ojibway "Casco". (Haupt Coll. & del) length 19 3/4 inches width 6 1/8 " height 3 4/16 "

Ojibway. round birch bark dish. (Haupt Col & del) diameter. 6 5/16 inches height 3 "

occupy their country few beef cattle are only found among the Ojibway their meat being chiefly wild. They are however adept in making articles from birch bark. an indian will fashion a bit of birch bark into almost if not quite any article he may require to carry water or hold rice or corn provided it is not subjected to the test of fire. paper can be used for dishes and water boiled in them but it is not so with birch bark. it is more inflammable than paper. The kind of utensils made by the Ojibway are few: The Bucket is made like the buckets for holding maple sugar with the exception that it is smaller in diameter and has a bale or handle at the top. this is made of a roll of birch bark about three quarters of an inch in diameter. The bale holding the basket is made of twisted bass wood fibres. [?Unlike?] the [?] the seams of the buckets are daubed with pitch and the bucket is ordinarily tight and does not leak.

  The "casco" is a large, narrow dish made of birch bark the ends are folded up and secured by strips of bass wood fiber around he top is a strip of wood to which the bale is whipped or seamed with strips of bass wood fiber.  In the "casco" is placed the [?dried?] or parched wild rice at the feasts given  at different times and from this "casco" is taken the individual supply they eat round it at a feast.  The food is taken from the "casco" with a spoon or ladle of tin or [?] as the case may be.  In former times the fingers were exclusively used.   The dish of the old requires that is it all in [?] now is the small round dish made of birch bark.   this is made with a square base and with flared sides the same method is employed to make it as in forming the other utensels except that the sides are not [?] over to the same degree.  the sewing is accomplished with bass wood fiber and a [?] is secured about the edge.  Such a dish as this is carried by every