Making maple sugar
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content: OPPS NEG.48420
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content: Black and white copy negative
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
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content: Iroquois
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
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content: 1 Photograph (4x5 1/2 in)
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: The women in the foreground are engaged in various tasks connected with making maple sugar - preparing to remove vessels filled with the liquid from the maples, carrying the filled vessel to the cauldrons over the fire, stirring the liquid already over the fire. One woman sits at the left, kneading the thick liquid into cakes. Beyond the hut and woods, other women are preparing the fields for the spring and summer, while still others sow Indian corn (? - "Bled d'inde"). -- Information from Lafitau, volume 2, "Description of the Plates" (translation), page aiii. Rough paraphrase of original French.