birchbark


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Noun1.birchbark - a canoe made with the bark of a birch treebirchbark - a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree
canoe - small and light boat; pointed at both ends; propelled with a paddle
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Voices on Birchbark: Everyday Communication in Medieval Russia
$5,100 Algonquin Birchbark Creel; birchbark panels are laced together and panels decorated with moose, fish, and floral designs; thick hide strap attached to sides, height 10.5 in.
100% of net proceeds from the PAWlitzer Prize event will benefit the SPCA for Monterey County, and the Birchbark Foundation.
For readers unfamiliar with Louise Erdrich's Birchbark House series, Makoons, the fifth book, is a fine place to start, standing well on its own while continuing the narrative.
This three-volume series presents a detailed study of 20 Frenchmen who are known to have worked at various occupations in the field: clerk, company manager, voyageur, birchbark canoe builder, and interpreter, to name a few.
To poetize birchbark, floodwaters, crawfish chimneys, the Great Comet of 1811.
A birchbark canoe, made by Algonquin Elder William Commanda and presented to the Friends of Gatineau Park by the Waddell family, is now part of the National Capital Commission's Gatineau Park Visitor Centre.
The names of the Alberta schools along with the names of the residential schools have been engraved in the base of the birchbark canoe, which will be a hanging installation in the Faculty of Native Studies.
Now the owner of Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore in Minneapolis, Erdrich continues to add layers upon layers to her fiction.
Wendie Jones's multi-coloured, detailed works are cheering, and Paul Bark's oil paintings on birchbark are also unusual and stand out.
A beautiful birchbark canoe that he made especially for Franklin is still on display at the Visitor Center at Roosevelt Campobello International Park.