Photograph by Kenneth Melvin Wright, ca. 1930.

Ladle used as a maple sugaring skimmer by the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, 1900–1930.

Miniature birchbark makak (storage container) filled with maple sugar, ca. late 1800s–early 1900s. Collected by Darwin S. Hall at the White Earth Reservation of Ojibwe.

Paddle used for working maple sugar by the Big Bear family (White Earth Band of Ojibwe) ca. 1800s.

Sap bucket formed from a single piece of birchbark folded together at the ends and sewn with basswood strips to form an oval dish. It was used for gathering sugar maple sap to be refined into syrup or sugar. From the Bois Forte Reservation, Minnesota, circa 1880.

Metal spigot used to direct maple sap from a tree. Used by the Red Lake Band of Chippewa, 1920–1925.

Three wooden sap spigots made no later than 1961. Forms part of the Jeannette O. and Harry D. Ayer Ojibwe Collection.

The CU Powerline (right), whose installation was protested by Alice Tripp and others (2010). Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Wtshymanski, June 2, 2010. CC BY-SA 3.0.

Alice Tripp marching with her campaign manager, Dick Hanson, in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of women’s suffrage (1978). Printed in the Minneapolis Tribune, August 27, 1978.