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SI-FP-1980-RR-111

Reel 3 of 

Finnish-Americans --->10/9/80 
Joyce Davis - 41 string kantele   Reel 3 of
Sound Tech Steve Green/ Mike Rivers [[arrow leading to]] 
Logger Anne Scheinberg/ Gloria Throne

1. Music & discussion.
Yandemünen - Copperboat - Stopped out of weariness but left kantele for people 
my kantele will sound even more sweetly in heaven than it does on earth - message of final song - composed by kantele player
1:51

1:56  Introduction of Marvin Salo  Wilderness Traditions: Skis & Snowshoes by [[strikethrough]] Jussi t [[/strikethrough]] JOHN BERQUIST
- winter mode of travel - skiis - summer - feet explains why people survived - had to be tough to make it - Uncle said "You must learn or you will decease"  
Estonian have flat bottom - groove comes up - produces more friction - Swedish have round groove - Finnish skiirs have square groove - concoction to rub on skiis so you could walk up & ski down - making ski traits therefore snowshoes - originated maybe by Indians - you'd be on your trpg run - do trail maintenance on way - 12 min. to go to school 12 1/2 miles - set traps - churn butter in evening - bartering system - blacksmith, butcher, horse trainer, animal health advisor, in their neighborhood - 1916 mining companies had strike - people got blackballed - cdn't get back into mines after strike - .'. they started farming - new homesteads - pooled     Feb. 24 - Mattimbiba
Matthews Day - families [[checkmark]] Food larder   2/3 for people 1/3 for livestock - next Sun. go to church by sled or horses - neighbors, potluck dinner - men talked about food supply - transaction wd take place - wife's grandfather owned mills run by stan

Traditional method = be a pack rat - pick birch bark at a certain season.
Saamali moss - insulated birch bark baskets. Birch bark pots - brown side towards the flame - velaments - birch sugar. like sugar maples - birch sugar. Below bark-brown layer - make tea (like sassafras) (=birch beer?) Root - utensils - snarly root won't crack
[[left margin]] snowshoes [[/left margin]] or twist for utensils, [[Sauna?]] switches from birch leaves - stimulate skin with switches 
1. [[strikethrough]] Pack shoe [[/strikethrough]] Travelling shoe - long
2. Pack shoe - light, could be carved = used for expeditions. Not for crossing a river
longest & largest shoe 3-Trapper shoe
- Black ash - cowhide - spar varnish - linseed oil - Black ash & birch.
Frames - young sapling - on the woodpile - thunder, lightning & rain on it to keep the bend in.
Book on how to make snowshoes - Hugh Bishop - collaborator.

SI-FP-1980-RR-112
2:30 - Reel 4   sound tech - Steve Green   logger - Gloria Throne
squaw-binding - explaining
cross cntry ski poles - date to 200 BC accdg to some - shafts - balsam
yellow willow  deerhorn tips - rawhide belt lacing - decorative leather - getting [[strikethrough]] sheep [[/strikethrough]] deer to give you free ride - 
[[image: sketch of cross country ski poles as described in text adjacent: a pole labeled 'balsa', stick with something bound around the top with a sort of cord, labeled 'leather'. Near lower tip seems like a disc labeled 'yellow willow', and a point at bottom labeled 'deerhorn']]