Athabascan Food Culture Tree and lifestyle

Photo By/Credit

Primmer, Rose/USFWS

Date Shot/Created
06/22/2017
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
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.
Subject tags
Wildlife refuges
Cultural resources