Maggie Sengoge and Porky White making maple sugar

Maggie Sengoge and Porky White tapping a tree for maple sap

Maggie Sengoge and Porky White drill into a tree in order to collect maple sap as part of the Heart of the Earth Survival School. Photograph by Randy Croce, 1984.

Maddy Moose making maple sugar at the Heart of the Earth Survival School

Maddy Moose making maple sugar at the Heart of the Earth Survival School

Maddy Moose making maple sugar at the Heart of the Earth Survival School (of Minneapolis) sugar bush camp, Maple Plain. Photograph by Randy Croce, 1984.

Maple trees in maple sugar camp

Maple trees in maple sugar camp

Maple trees in a maple sugar camp. Photograph by Randy Croce, 1984.

Maple sugar candy

Maple sugar candy

Maple sugar candy molded into the shape of a maple leaf. From the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, 1960–1985.

Maple sap icicle, Mille Lacs

Maple sap icicle

Icicle made out of sap on a tree being tapped for sugar. Photograph by Moroe P. Killy, April 19, 1947.

Making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe

Making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe

Making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe, April 19, 1946. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy.

Making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe

Making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe

Making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe, April 19, 1946. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy.

Making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe

Making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe

Making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe, April 19, 1946. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy.

Birchbark cones with maple syrup

Birchbark cones with maple syrup

Set of seven birchbark cones mounted onto a wooden base. Four of the cones are filled with hardened maple syrup. Collected by Frances Densmore from the Grand Portage Reservation of Chippewa no later than 1930.

Um-be-quay (Mrs. John Mink) making maple sugar

Um-be-quay (Mrs. John Mink) making maple sugar

Um-be-quay (Mrs. John Mink) making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe, ca. 1925.

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