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Native Americans and early European settlers cut a slanting gash in a maple tree, placed a v-shaped chip of wood in the bark below the gash, and collected the sap from the wounds in buckets made of birch bark. The sap was then boiled down to sugar using a hollowed-out basswood log, throwing hot stones into the sap to evaporate the water.
