Word: birchbark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Never Take the Horseshoe from the Door, danced jigs, reels, clogs. Average age of the Michigan group: 67. The Wisconsin lumberjacks played on a one-string Norwegian instrument called the salmodikon. Seventy-one-year-old Sven Svenson, in a chef's costume, chipped a two-inch piece of birchbark from a log, put it to his lips and played a thin, shrill tune on the chip...
...White House, Maine's lame-duck Senator Gould conducted a party of French-Canadian hunters who presented the President with moose meat. A visitor lifted a birchbark horn to his lips and said: "Now, Mr. President, we'll show you how we call the moose." No Bull Mooser, Mr. Hoover exclaimed: "No, no, please don't! I'd just as soon look at those horns if it's all the same...
...light but bulky package arrived at the Vatican last week from Alaska, addressed to Pope Pius XI, a surprise gift from hundreds of Catholic Eskimo children. The contents: a large piece of birchbark. Painted on its inner surface was a dog sled carrying nuns and a missionary priest through the main street of Holy Cross Mission, Alaska, towards a primitive rendering of the dome of St. Peter's while a female figure, representing St. Therese, scattered celestial petals from the clouds...