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Pitch


Title Pitch
Origtitle Cooking balsam pitch mixed with ashes for use in building a canoe, Mille Lacs.
Caption Pitch is boiled tar from a pine tree which is applied to canoes to make them water tight.
Source When Everybody Called Me Gah-bay-bi-nayss, "Forever-Flying-Bird": An Ethnographic Biography of Paul Peter Buffalo - University of Minnesota Duluth
Date 1959
URL http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/Buffalo/PB12.html
Creator Monroe P. Killy
Type Photo
Origin Internet
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Pitch