General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . The Woodland Indians (Index Plan, p. id. Floor I, Hall 4) Almost the entire hall is devoted to the Indians ofNortheastern United States and Canada—the GreatEastern Woodland. The whole of this area was inforest. The culture of these Woodland Indians is charac-terized by the bark wigwam and the birch geographical center was the Great Lake and fishing were daily occupations, butwild rice and maple sugar were staple foods, whilesome corn, beans, squashes, tobacco, etc., wereraised where the cli
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . The Woodland Indians (Index Plan, p. id. Floor I, Hall 4) Almost the entire hall is devoted to the Indians ofNortheastern United States and Canada—the GreatEastern Woodland. The whole of this area was inforest. The culture of these Woodland Indians is charac-terized by the bark wigwam and the birch geographical center was the Great Lake and fishing were daily occupations, butwild rice and maple sugar were staple foods, whilesome corn, beans, squashes, tobacco, etc., wereraised where the climate permitted. The above photograph of a miniature groupshows how the Indians of the sugar maple regionmade sugar from maple sap in the earlyspring. Men and women took part in^^^ the work. The sugar camp was made near a clearing in the sugarmaple forest. The dome-shaped,bark-covered house was the stor-age place for the utensils whenthey were not in use. The trees were gashed, usuallyon the sunward side, with a stoneax. A spout, consisting of a shal-low, trough-like section
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