Noiseless Automatic Sewing Machine designed by by the Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Company in London, England in 1871. Used by the Frederick Spangenberg family.
Citizens of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe harvest rice on Mud Lake, located on the Leech River, seventeen miles downstream of Leech Lake Dam, on September 3, 2015. USACE photo by George Stringham. Public domain.
Manoomin or psin (wild rice in Ojibwe and Dakota) is an important traditional food for many Indigenous peoples of the region and has been for millennia. Join Pat and Gage Kruse (Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa) as they go ricing and share harvesting techniques and other information related to wild rice.
Wild-ricing educational activities organized by the Heart of the Earth Survival School. From the 1982–1983 edition of Chimigezi Winage (the school's year book), page 36.