Birch bark is waterproof, strong, and flexible, and Athabascan women traditionally fashioned it into baskets of many shapes and sizes. These were used to collect water, berries and roots; to hold food ...

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Helen Dick, a Dena’ina elder, learned to make birch bark baskets from her grandmother. Now, she’s teaching others to make them, too.

Birch bark has long been the favored material of basket makers in Finland, Sweden and Russia for making essential items such as containers, shoes, hats, and backpacks. The bark is naturally waterre… ...

Not all bark is created equal, 82-year-old Butch Phillips says, and he should know. For more than 30 years, Phillips, a member of the Penobscot Nation who grew up on Indian Island, has been making ...

The Chippewa Nature Center, 400 S. Badour in Midland, recently hosted a display of Miller's latest homespun creation -- a canoe fashioned from birch bark and other natural materials.

PLAINFIELD — Trees surround Jennifer Lee's rustic home, but harvesting their bark for the baskets populating her shelves isn't an on-demand activity. "There's a season to taking the bark off a tree," ...

Teresa and Rosie McLeod share their knowledge of birchbark crafting at community events and with young people in order to keep the craft alive in northern Sask.

'Everything from birch bark baskets, to stained glass, carving, raven's tail weaving,' says the festival's executive director Charlene Alexander.