Birchbark basket made by Mrs. Annie Kakegamic and painted by Norval Morrisseau
“At the lake called Mesinama Sahegun, the Ojibway Indians used to go to feast on the sturgeons. Everyone was happy. The old women and the young prepared smoked sturgeon and put it away in birchbark containers for the long winter months ahead.” (Norval Morrisseau, Legends of My People: The Great Ojibway, 1965, p. 34).