St. Paul businessmen help return century-old birchbark scroll to Minnesota’s Ojibwe tribe
The four-by-four-inch scroll is composed of four sections of birchbark lashed together with hide ties. The “pages” are coiled and carved with images and landscapes relevant to specific and private ceremonies.
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Deanna Weniger / St. Paul Pioneer Press |
11:11 am, May 18, 2021
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Sean Blanchet, left, and Robert Snell, owners of Revere Auctions in St. Paul talk in their gallery Monday, May 17, 2021 about their efforts to return culturally sensitive items to the countries or people groups from which the items originated. The two recently worked with a Boston auction house to retrieve a century-old birchbark scroll and return it to the White Earth Indian Reservation, home to the Ojibwe people, in northwest Minnesota. Deanna Weniger / St. Paul Pioneer Press