birch bark basket

square bottom; round at top; a waster paper basket, made from a single piece of birch bark.

This is a perfectly scaled model of a birch bark and ash splint canoe. The exterior or weaker side of the canoe faces inward, and the hull is almost completely lined with the ash splints. On the outside of the canoe model, pitch was used to cover the seams. Painted red circles are incised at bow and stern. Black, red, and blue paint decorate the rim of the model canoe.

Small honey coloured birch bark basket with circular top and square bottom. Bark is cut, bent and laced into shape at two sides, with a twig rim which is overcast with strips of root? The lighter coloured bark is to the interior.

Brown birch bark basket with a slightly oblong-shaped top and a square bottom. Bark is cut, bent and laced into place at twp sides, with a twig around the rim which is overcast with thin strips of dyed black root or bark. Vertical half-moon and linear patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark. Interior is light coloured with a very rough surface.

Brown birch bark basket with an oblong-shaped top and a rectangular bottom. Bark is cut, bent and laced into place at the two ends, with a twig around the rim overcast with thin strips of dyed root? Vertical half-moon and linear patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark.