Birch Bark Bitings

Date Added: November 17, 2007 05:41:39 AM

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Category: Art by Classification: Mixed Medium: Birch Bark Bitings

Brief History of Birch Bark Biting by Sally Milne: The ancient people of the Woodlands were a nomadic race, so all the art of the Wood's Cree was functional art.Birch bark bitings were made, then painstakingly copied into moose hide with a feather quill and animal blood.

The design was the base for moose hair tufting and porcupine quill embroidery. The birch bark bitings were usually discarded after use.

There were usually a small number of expert birch bark biters in a group of families. Northern bead work still bears the flower designs influenced by birch bark bitings.

View Sally's Birch Bark Bitings Here

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