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The childhood of Ji-shib ́: the Ojibwa (1900)

Jenks, Albert Ernest, 1869-1953 · New York ; Chicago ; Dallas : Mentzer, Bush & Co. · leaf 66

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The Childhood of Ji-shiB 62 While she was doing this, Ji-shih helped his father prepare the frame of the canoe. This frame, made like the skeleton of a great fish laid on its … protect the bark and give form to the canoe. It was turned bottom up, and Ji-shib and his mother melted pine pitch and smeared it over all of the seams so that they would not leak, poking the pitch in with a flaming stick. The canoe was then completed. They carried it to the lake, and it floated…

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