This film shows a traditional Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa) wild rice harvest including parching, threshing or jigging by foot power, and fanning. Participants are the John Chicag family and Gerald Strong. Filmed by Monroe P. Kelly (1910-2010) on the Nett Lake Indian Reservation, Minnesota in 1940.
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Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Monroe Killy Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa) films, image #, NMAI.AC.430; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
