"Johann Kohl was an educated, urbane, and well-trained German
geographer, ethnologist, and popular writer. During his visit with the
Lake Superior Ojibwa in 1855, he made useful and unbiased studies of
their material culture, religion, and folklore. . . . The extent of
Kohl's observations is really amazing. They cover the fur trade, canoe
building, domestic utensils, quillwork, native foods, hunting, fishing,
trapping, cooking, toboggans, snowshoes, gardening, lodge building,
games and warfare."--Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly