| The finished bows were richly decorated with painted and gilded leather or birchbark. |
| Most were made of birchbark that had been embroidered, while others were covered with red or black cloth attractively embroidered with moosehair. |
| Although these canoes are covered with birchbark, this skin, like that of a kayak, is stretched over a framework of ribs and spars. |
| It is made of birchbark and covered with black velvet, which was for Aboriginal artisans an expensive fabric. |
| 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. |
| By the end of the 19th century, the more delicate birchbark creations frequently had their panels sewn with cotton thread or seamed with ribbon. |
