| The finished bows were richly decorated with painted and gilded leather or birchbark. |
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| Although these canoes are covered with birchbark, this skin, like that of a kayak, is stretched over a framework of ribs and spars. |
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| It was employed to create splints for making baskets, skin an animal, fashion snowshoes, harpoons, spears, bowls, and ladles, and make a birchbark canoe. |
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| All we know is that the birchbark canoe replaced the dugout canoe, the type that was in use before the arrival of the Europeans. |
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| Most were made of birchbark that had been embroidered, while others were covered with red or black cloth attractively embroidered with moosehair. |
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| Unlike the kayak, it was an open boat, either round in shape or elongated much like the birchbark canoe. |
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| The large birchbark maitre canot of the fur trade, an oversized version of the Indian canoe, also was once of economic importance. |
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| The pieces of birchbark are sewn together using the root of black spruce, which has been used for this purpose from earliest times. |
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| Canvas-covered hulls follow the general plan of birchbark canoe construction in that they have a plank lining supported by ribs. |
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| Quillwork on birchbark is an art form that was pioneered by the Mi'kmaq, and their traditional geometric designs are unique. |
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| For example, this tray is made of porcupine quills, moose hair and birchbark. |
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| Archival documents reveal that the art of embroidery on birchbark was practised from the early 18th century. |
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| This birchbark glove box is lined with silk and generously decorated with embroidery in moosehair dyed with natural pigments. |
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| By the end of the 19th century, the more delicate birchbark creations frequently had their panels sewn with cotton thread or seamed with ribbon. |
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| It is made of birchbark, which means that it is lightweight and easily portable. |
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| The ends of the quills were then inserted into holes in birchbark, which the artists sewed into forms that would appeal to European buyers. |
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| In woodland areas, they made horns of birchbark and drumsticks of carved antlers and wood. |
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| This is a glove or handkerchief case made of pink silk with a birchbark bottom and flaps. |
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| It is made of birchbark and covered with black velvet, which was for Aboriginal artisans an expensive fabric. |
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| The birchbark canoes had a thin plank lining held against the inside of the bark cover by an extensive framing of ribs forced under the gunwale. |
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| Designed for open water and used for hunting sea mammals, the Beothuk birchbark canoe was stable enough to heel over without taking on water as the animals were landed. |
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| Before the arrival of Europeans, Aboriginal peoples travelled up and down the St. Lawrence and its tributaries in their birchbark vessels, trading a variety of goods. |
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| Thank you to Raphalel Ponce of Toulouse, France for his description of an Athabaskan Tathouke birchbark basket in his collection. |
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| The unique use of birchbark represents the Ojibway culture and Midewiwin scrolls, which record in pictographic images the traditions of the Midewiwin society of the Ojibway people. |
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| The baskets made by Alaska Natives are commonly constructed of birchbark or cedar, beach grass, dried grass, spruce or willow root and baleen. |
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| Wendie Jones's multi-coloured, detailed works are cheering, and Paul Bark's oil paintings on birchbark are also unusual and stand out. |
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| Woodberry's dinnerware and accessories features white glazed ceramic pieces with hand-painted themes reminiscent of birchbark and woodland flora. |
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| A range of sewing accessories such as needle and scissor cases fashioned from birchbark and richly decorated with moosehair embroidery were also made. |
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| You can visit a tipi, a wigwam and a longhouse or explore ancient technologies and tools used in building birchbark canoes through hands-on demonstrations. |
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| Cleaver introduced the use of collage technique to create backgrounds and forms using coloured textures, and sometimes included natural materials such as grass, birchbark, evergreen branches and fur. |
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| These objects were shipped to France, where they were avidly sought as curiosities. In fact, this type of birchbark box seems to have been made specifically for the European market. |
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| Panels such as this one, veritable mosaics of coloured porcupine quills and birchbark, were sometimes sold to individuals or to furniture makers for placement right in the frames of tables and chairs. |
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| The canoe that now sits in the domestic departure lounge is an authentic Algonquin birchbark canoe built by master craftsman and Algonquin Elder Peter Maranda, of Barriere Lake, Quebec. |
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| The departure lounge on the 2nd level is home to the spectacular depiction of the Rideau Falls, where the water then flows into our interpretation of the Rideau Canal, where an Algonquin birchbark canoe graces the view. |
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| You can make a temporary raincoat out of birchbark if you need one. |
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| The two set out early one morning in Mishomis's birchbark canoe. |
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| Bark canoes developed in a few areas, ranging in design from craft having only the most elementary framing to the highly developed birchbark canoes of the North American Indians. |
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| A hood made of birchbark dropped down and blotted out the horse. |
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| To make this kind of canoe you have to stitch birchbark sheets together around a wooden framework using specially prepared white spruce root as binding material. |
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| In their attempts to reach the heartland of the continent, they soon adopted the Amerindian canoe, a light and manoeuvrable craft made of birchbark. |
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| This birchbark tray was made to collect visitors' calling cards. |
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| Made of birchbark intricately embroidered with moosehair, these trays as well as small cases for calling cards were highly prized gifts, and Huron-Wendat women made large numbers of them in the quiet of their homes. |
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| Huron-Wendat women from Wendake and the Ursuline sisters of Quebec City practised the art of embroidery with moosehair, using it to decorate pretty birchbark containers and other objects. |
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| A good drinking-cup is fashioned of a parallelogram of birchbark twisted into pyramid form and fastened with a split stick. |
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| A beautiful birchbark canoe that he made especially for Franklin is still on display at the Visitor Center at Roosevelt Campobello International Park. |
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| Now the owner of Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore in Minneapolis, Erdrich continues to add layers upon layers to her fiction. |
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| Readers of Louise Erdrich's books The Birchbark House and The Game of Silence will be thrilled to once again spend time with the Ojibway tribe in northern Minnesota. |
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