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

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, April 19, 1946. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy.

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, April 19, 1946. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy.

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 on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe, ca. 1925.

Ojibwe women making maple sugar at Cass Lake on the Leech Lake Reservation of Ojibwe, ca. 1920.

Sieve used to strain out impurities from maple syrup after it had been boiled down. Used no later than 1959. Forms part of the Jeannette O. and Harry D. Dyer Ojibwe Collection.

Spoon with burnt decoration on handle used for maple sugaring, ca. 1900–1950.