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Ojibway, "Apa.kwe.shkwa.i.ag." ("reed mat for Camp.") length. 10 feet 6 inches width 4 " 2½ "

detail of reed mat for camp.

Needle for threading rushes for mats. length. 11½ inches width ½ " thickness 1/8 inch eye length ¼ "

    width    1/8 "

Minnestota Hist Soc Coll. Haupt del.

The Ojibway (Chippeway) indian makes two forms of habitation which are peculiar to themselves and uncontaminated by white man's ways. A temporary of movable form and a permanent structure. The first is designated a "Wig war-igamig" or "Birch Bark Camp" and is the one which accompanies the Ojibway. packed upon the shoulder and back of his squaw, or squaws wherever he sees fit to go. and locate.

  This "Wiguasigamig" is made of mats of birch bark and reeds tied with lanseed twine to a frame or poles.

"Anakan". - O Shk-an

  (Mat)            (reed)

Bullrush - Scirpus.subterminalis.G (Haupt del)