Birch bark scrolls for ceremonial use by the Ojibwa (Anishinaabe) people of North America
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Example of a Birch bark scroll piece
A wiigwaasabak (in Anishinaabe syllabics: ᐧᐆᒃᐧᐋᓴᐸᒃ, plural: wiigwaasabakoonᐧᐆᒃᐧᐋᓴᐸᑰᓐ) is a birch bark scroll, on which the Ojibwa (Anishinaabe) people of North America wrote with a written language composed of complex geometrical patterns and shapes.
When used specifically for Midewiwin ceremonial use, these scrolls are called mide-wiigwaas (in syllabics: ᒥᑌᐧᐆᒃᐧᐋᔅ). These enabled the memorization of complex ideas, and passing along history and stories to succeeding generations. Several such scrolls are in museums, including one on display at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC.[1]
Copper and slate may have also been used, along with hides, pottery, and other artifacts. Some archaeologists are presently trying to determine the exact origins, dates, and locations of their use. Many scrolls were hidden away in caves and man-made pits.
A wiigwaasabak (in Anishinaabe syllabics: ᐧᐆᒃᐧᐋᓴᐸᒃ, plural: wiigwaasabakoon ᐧᐆᒃᐧᐋᓴᐸᑰᓐ) is a birch bark scroll, on which the Ojibwa (Anishinaabe) people...
offering of Semaa or Tobacco. Anishinaabe oral tradition and records of wiigwaasabak (birch bark scrolls) are still carried on today through the Midewewin...
Lakes art formPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Wiigwaasabak – Birch bark scrolls for ceremonial use by the Ojibwa (Anishinaabe) people...
According to their tradition, and from recordings in birch bark scrolls (wiigwaasabak), Ojibwe (an Algonquian-speaking people) came from the eastern areas...
Bryggen inscriptions, documents of the same age found in Bergen, Norway Wiigwaasabak – birch bark scrolls of the Ojibwa people Palm-leaf manuscript Mi'kmaq...
speakers. According to Anishinaabeg tradition, and from recordings in Wiigwaasabak (birch bark scrolls), the Odawa people came from the eastern areas of...
then use the Wiigwaasabak character representing their doodem. Today, Ojibwe artists commonly incorporate motifs found in the Wiigwaasabak to instill "Native...
write histories of Indigenous peoples from Indigenous viewpoints. The Wiigwaasabak, birch bark scrolls on which the Ojibwa (Anishinaabe) people wrote complex...
Gwiiwizens wedizhichigewinid—Deeds of a Little-boy. Mide societies keep wiigwaasabak (birch bark scrolls) that preserve their teachings. They have degrees...
scrolls are the oldest surviving Buddhist texts ever discovered. Known as Wiigwaasabak, the scrolls have been attributed to the Dharmaguptaka sect. Since the...
intaglio, pictographs, petrographs rock art and birch bark scrolls, Wiigwaasabak, were stylistic antecedents of the Woodland style. This visionary style...
tradition and possibly also impermanent bark scrolls similar to the Ojibwe wiigwaasabak. Written reports describe the Lenape using bark scrolls to draw pictographs...
Angelique Merasty (Woodland Cree, 1924–1996), birchbark biting artist Wiigwaasabak: birch bark scrolls jiimaan: Canoe typically made using birch bark maniwiigwaasekomaan:...
connecting Traverse City to Cadillac According to oral histories and Wiigwaasabak birch bark scrolls, the ancestors of today's Ojibwe, Odawa, Bodewadami...
the 19th century. The dates have been disputed.: 36 A 2.6-meter long wiigwaasabak, now in the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta by Eshkwaykeeshik James...
the War of 1812 Tecumseh Tecumseh's War War canoe Western Confederacy Wiigwaasabak Winalagalis Treaty Group Windigo First Nations Council Wolseley Expedition...
book at the time of his death. Walam Olum Birch bark document Midewiwin Wiigwaasabak Petroglyphs Pictographs 1946: Wind Without Rain. Toronto: Copp Clark...
of the nineteenth century. The markings may have been similar to the wiigwaasabak of Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) culture in scope and usage, able to record mnemonically...
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