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Title
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Pike head bones
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Contributor
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Museum of Civilisation (sharing)
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Richard Ejinagosi Kistabish (description)
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Creator
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Mary Ann Polson
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Subject
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Pike (Kinoje)
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Oral tradition (Adisokedan)
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Famille
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Polson
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Description
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Elders are a great source of knowledge in all Aboriginal Nations. Telling stories to children is one way of passing on some of this knowledge to younger generations. Some storytellers use pike-head bones, which they arrange to illustrate the events recounted in the story.
One of these stories tells how Kinoje, the pike, tired of tending Nibi (water; rivers, streams, rapids, lakes), asked the Anicinabek to help him. In exchange for their help, Kinoje gave the Anicinabek a gift: the story of their birth. The Anicinabek once lived deep in the mouth of Kinoje. There, they had all kinds of instruments to fulfill their responsibilities and duties. Moreover, when you take Kinoje's head and open it wide, you can see a human at the bottom, arms in the air. As a child, the size of this boiled head can be very impressive.
As the story is told, the bones of Kinoje's head are placed on a tray. Each bone represents a tool. For example, the one in the second row, the third pair of bones from the left, represents oars. The one on the right represents axes, used in particular to make tomahawks. The first pair of bones in the second row would probably represent a tool used to cut grass and gather rice for food.
These tool symbols help us remember how to make our tools to help us do our work to make our lives better.
We drink the juice from cooking Kinoje. This juice contains a sleeping pill, very useful when you're ill and need to sleep.
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Format
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Object
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Caractéristiques du format
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Length: 4 cm ; Width: 2 cm
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Matériaux
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Bone (Okan)
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Pike (Kinoje)
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Technique de fabrication
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Boiled
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Date Created
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Around 1975
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Titre antérieur
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Montage [Museum of Civilization]
Title changed as unrepresentative.
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Access Rights
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Open access
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License
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Contact Minwashin
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Date Modified
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2024-10-02
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Identifier
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MdlC75-1278
