A wiigwaasabak (in Anishinaabe syllabics: ᐐᒀᓴᐸᒃ, plural: wiigwaasabakoon ᐐᒀᓴᐸᑰᓐ) is a birch bark scroll, on which the Ojibwa (Anishinaabe) people of North America wrote with a written …

May 18, 2021 · A birch bark scroll that Ojibwe people consider among their most important cultural items will be returning to the White Earth Nation after being held for decades by …

May 9, 2000 · He took a bundle of sacred scrolls, made out of birch bark, and central to the performance of ancient religious ceremonies of the tribe. The scrolls were never forgotten by …

A large collection of birch bark scrolls were discovered in Afghanistan during the civil war in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, possibly in the Bamiyan Caves. The approximately 3,000 …

Jan 25, 2024 · In the end, more than 100 people united over a single mission to save sacred Ojibwe birch bark scrolls from falling into a black hole of private collectors of Native artifacts. …

Birchbark scrolls used in the Ojibwa religion (Midewiwin) were sewn together in similar fashion, and a form of pictographic writing was inscribed with a pointed instrument ( fig.B ).

Dec 3, 2010 · Throughout the past, the Ojibweg and other closely related tribes have recorded their creation stories, songs, history, symbolic images and world view on scrolls, etched on the …

Feb 7, 2024 · Birchbark scrolls used Anishinaabe syllabics, geometric symbols and patterns to carry culture and history, including migration stories, on to the next generation. The scrolls are …

There is the rare occasion that single objects cross our path and then while working backwards we find answers. This was the case with three mysterious birch bark scrolls that where …

May 18, 2015 · A wiigwaasabak is a birch scroll, sewn together with cedar roots, used ceremonially by Ojibwe medicine men. They use geometric diagrams to explain many complex …