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Illustrations

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.