First peoples Olympic Enhancing BC At any time it rain, sun and snow here in Whistler, BC, during the Winter Olympic Games 2010, but no one inside the local Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Center (SLCC) seems to notice. Men, women and children from all over the world sat transfixed as the indigenous peoples to dance, sing and tell their stories - Lively, captivating performances that capture the hearts, minds and respect ...
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Barrette (set of 3) Russian Birch Bark Hairclip Clasp $24.00 Birch bark (Russian Beresta) is unique natural material. It has been used to make different articles of consumption such as fishermen's canoes, baskets, boxes, cases, caskets for keeping salt, flour, corn, grain, cereals, berries, cedar nuts as well as fine adornments. Special boxes and baskets were made to keep liquids - milk, sour cream, cedar oil, different animal fat, honey, salted fish and m... |
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Barrette (set of 3) Russian Birch Bark Hairclip Clasp $25.00 Birch bark (Russian Beresta) is unique natural material. It has been used to make different articles of consumption such as fishermen's canoes, baskets, boxes, cases, caskets for keeping salt, flour, corn, grain, cereals, berries, cedar nuts as well as fine adornments. Special boxes and baskets were made to keep liquids - milk, sour cream, cedar oil, different animal fat, honey, salted fish and m... |
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Barrette (set of 5) Russian Birch Bark Hairclip Clasp $38.00 Birch bark (Russian Beresta) is unique natural material. It has been used to make different articles of consumption such as fishermen's canoes, baskets, boxes, cases, caskets for keeping salt, flour, corn, grain, cereals, berries, cedar nuts as well as fine adornments. Special boxes and baskets were made to keep liquids - milk, sour cream, cedar oil, different animal fat, honey, salted fish and m... |
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Photo Jigsaw Puzzle of Canadian guide making a canoe, 1858 from Mary Evans $29.99 Photo Puzzle, Canadian guide making a canoe, 1858. Engraving showing a French Canadian voyageur (guide) making a canoe on a framework of cedar covered with sheets of birch bark. Canoes varied in length from 15-40 feet in length, and although very light could carry several tons in weight. Chosen by Mary Evans. 10x14 Photo Puzzle with 252 pieces. Packed in black cardboard box of dimensions 5 5/8 x 7... |
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The Survival of the Bark Canoe $6.65 In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition of o... |
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Building a Birchbark Canoe: The Algonquin Wabanaki Tciman $19.95 In this groundbreaking book, David Gidmark reviews the early history of bark canoes, providing readers with an overview of construction methods and featuring the individual techniques of four traditional 20th-century Algonquin craftsmen and their assistants. Detailed descriptions of their step-by-step construction methods are included, and the adoption of tools and methods from non-Indian culture... |
US $65.00