Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes

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ILLUSTRATIONS

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Early Indian drawing showing a wrestling bout	[Frontispiece]
Early Indian pottery	[20]
Wild rice tied in bunches or sheaves	[42]
Wild rice kernels after threshing and winnowing	[42]
Birch-bark yoke, and sap buckets, used in maple sugar making	[52]
Picture writing. An Ojibwa Meda song	[84]
Permanent ash-bark wigwam of the wild rice gathering Ojibwa	[104]
Shell gorget showing eagle carving	[128]
Indian jar from the mounds of Arkansas	[128]
Spider gorgets	[158]
Shell pins made and used by Indians of the Mississippi Valley	[176]
Ojibwa dancer’s beaded medicine bag	[198]

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MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
AND THE
GREAT LAKES