- A wiigwaasi-makak (plural: wiigwaasi-
makakoon),
meaning "birch-bark box" in the
Anishinaabe language, is a box made of
panels of
birchbark sewn together...
- 'thing that flies' (from bimisemagad, 'to fly'), and 'battery' is ishkode-
makakoons,
literally 'little fire-box' (from ishkode, 'fire', and makak, 'box')...
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other household use.
Examples of this
packaging were
called wiigwaasi-
makakoon, and the
watap stitchery was
often used as an
element in the decoration...
-
frontier Great Lakes was
maple sugar,
packed into cone-shaped
baskets or
makakoon of birchbark.
Sugar Loaf Rock was
named for its
resemblance to one of these...
