Case file · Sacred site
Agawa Rock and Mishipeshu
Red ochre paintings on a cliff at Lake Superior show Mishipeshu, the horned underwater lynx of Anishinaabe tradition who rules the lake's storms and copper; Henry Schoolcraft published Ojibwe drawings of the site in 1851.
1851 CE · 47.36, -84.67 · status: legend
The account
The site was relocated by Selwyn Dewdney in 1958. Offerings of tobacco are still left for safe passage. Mishipeshu was said to guard the copper of Lake Superior and to drown those who took it.