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Incised figures aiding a recitation.
Also known as: Anishinaabe birchbark scroll
The Anishinaabe scrolls of incised birchbark used to record and recall ceremonial knowledge.
Record and recall ceremonial and historical knowledge in Anishinaabe tradition.
Contexts: History, Public information
Read by a person who already holds the knowledge, so the scroll prompts a recitation rather than containing it — the fourth instance in this sprint of a record inseparable from its keeper, after the wampum belt, the winter count and the message stick.
Contexts: History, Public information
Some scrolls relate to knowledge held within particular societies, and the record does not reproduce or interpret such material.
Contexts: History, Public information
Figures of people, animals, lodges and paths incised into sheets of birchbark, arranged in sequence along the roll.
Both are physical records that prompt a recitation held by a keeper rather than containing the account themselves.