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Chippewas Gathering Wild Rice
Illustration of three Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians gathering wild rice into a canoe.
Harvesting Wild Rice
September 2, 1966
The caption on the reverse of this print explains: "Indians harvesting wild rice. Man poles rice boat while wife uses cedar ricing sticks and strips grain from stalks over the gunwales of the boat....
Parching Wild Rice
1907
A Chippewa woman parching wild rice in Lac Vieux Desert. Lac Vieux Desert is a 4200 acre Michigan-Wisconsin boundary water in Vilas County.
Stoddard Harvesting Wild Rice
1941
Joe Stoddard of the Chippewa tribe harvesting wild rice on the Bad River Indian Reservation.
