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Primmer, Rose/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
06/22/2017Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
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Athabascan Food Culture Tree On its branches are bowls, birch bark baskets, and other containers which contain traditional foods (such as half-dried whitefish, wild berries, Indian ice cream, Indian fry bread, Indian potato, and whitefish eggs. Campfires were used to cook. To boil water, the people dug a hole beside the campfire and placed a moose skin in the hole. The skin was filled with water and meat. Rocks were heated and dropped into the skin pot until the meat was cooked.
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