. Bulletin. Ethnology. 266 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 128 The scenes are characteristically those of the food quest. In one, perhaps the highest flight of realistic genius of which these Indians are capable without instruction from the outside, we have the familiar and joyous event of late winter; the gathering of sugar-maple sap (fig. 10, b; pi. 30, d). This pictographic composition is reproduced from a spontaneously made water pail of bark, the seams pitched with. Figure 23. -Designs from one side and end of birchbark container (Mattawa Band) (NMC, III, L, 189). spruce gum, in const
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 266 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 128 The scenes are characteristically those of the food quest. In one, perhaps the highest flight of realistic genius of which these Indians are capable without instruction from the outside, we have the familiar and joyous event of late winter; the gathering of sugar-maple sap (fig. 10, b; pi. 30, d). This pictographic composition is reproduced from a spontaneously made water pail of bark, the seams pitched with. Figure 23. -Designs from one side and end of birchbark container (Mattawa Band) (NMC, III, L, 189). spruce gum, in constant use in the family of Mikweni'ni, "Willing ; It stands for the idea which I have expressed with some persistence, that the forest dwellers of the "snowshoe hunting" culture possess a natural inclination toward an art tradition in deco- rating utensils in common use. Another theme construed in the style. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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