The bark of white birch is the traditional sheath material of Scandinavia. The method described in this chapter is a slick way to make a quickie sheath for anything: knife, scissors, chisel, or ...
Editor's Note: This column first appeared in the York Weekly in 2013. Paper birch (also called white birch) is an iconic tree of the north and probably our most easily recognized tree because of its ...
The Native American art of birch bark biting requires practitioners to envision a design while biting down on a folded strip of thin, pliable tree bark. Birch bark biters punch small holes in the bark ...
The bark canoe of the Chippeways [Ojibwe] I is, perhaps, the most beautiful and light model of all the water crafts that were ever invented. They are generally made complete with the rind of one birch ...
BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) — One of the oldest-known examples of a Native American birch-bark canoe is on display at a museum in Maine, where indigenous tribes have used them for thousands of years. The ...
Editor's Note: This column first appeared in the York Weekly in 2013. Paper birch (also called white birch) is an iconic tree of the north and probably our most easily recognized tree because of its ...