Harvesting jack pine roots for stitching birchbark.
Harvesting jack pine roots for stitching birchbark.
Hawk fashions a miniature birchbark canoe, beside three one-piece dishes of folded bark.
Each player earns dried beans by casting five bone dice.
Otter tends a food-drying rack of lashed saplings.
Dining with mussel shell spoons from dishes of birchbark and turtle shell.
Hawk fashions a walking stick from a sapling encircled by a vine.
Otter stitches a moosehide knife sheath with a deer ulna bone awl and sinew thread.
Eagle molding lead balls for the wheellock pistol.
Hawk twists connected strands of sinew to form a thread. Six completed threads lie drying across his upper legging.
Trimming cattail stalks and roots with a serrated bone knife on an overturned wooden bowl.
Hawk shells hazelnuts with a stone mortar and pestle.
Flute songs of The People float out over the Tahquamenon.
Two native flutes, a shorter French flageolet, and a brass jew’s harp.