General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . m 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 of wood,was inserted in each slot, and abark vessel placed beneath tocatch the dripping sap. (See illus-tration at left.) The sap was boiled in barkkettles h
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . m 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 of wood,was inserted in each slot, and abark vessel placed beneath tocatch the dripping sap. (See illus-tration at left.) The sap was boiled in barkkettles hung over the fire fromwooden hooks and stirred andtested with wooden paddles, likethat at the right. When the sap, which was boiledtwice, was of the correct thick-ness, it was poured, still warm,into a wooden trough where itwas pounded with a wooden ladle(above at left). The American Indian exhibitsradiate left and center fromMemorial Hall. Toward the left,we meet first the Indians of NewYork and New England and thesuccessive exhibits are so ar-ranged that you can imagine ?*. USE OF BIRCH BARK. AMONG THE EASTERN INDIANS (From .1 miniature group tne Woodland [ndians Hall) yourself walking across the United Statesfrom east to west. The eastern woodland of the UnitedStates extended westward almost to theMississippi River. Objects in the casesshow that these Indians lived in the forestand the materials they used came fromthe forest, which fact influenced theirhouses, tools, weapons, clothing and orna-ments so that they look different fromthose of [ndians in the other halls. While, as already stated, the forest In-dians were primarily hunters, and alsopracticed some agriculture, nevertheless,their woodland environment led to vari-( his simple industries naturally dependentupon such raw materials as were at handand adaptable to their daily needs. Wood was used for canoes, mortars,spoons, bowls, dishes, houses, woodsplints and baskets. Bark of variouskinds was a favorite material. For
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