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HARBIN - One man's trash is another man's treasure. This is especially the case for Tao Dandan, who collects pieces of birch bark dumped by wood processing plants and creates handicraft with them ...

The tradition of making utensils out of birch barks still exists in North China's Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region and some parts of neighboring Heilongjiang Province. Historically lacking pottery or ...

The bark of white birch is the traditional sheath material of Scandinavia. The method described in this chapter is a slick way to make a quickie sheath for anything: knife, scissors, chisel, or ...

Seven Days is 30, and we need your help to celebrate. With your donation, we’ll stay on track, delivering rigorous reporting on Vermont news and culture. Richard Moore‘s cityscape photographs could ...

The Native American art of birch bark biting requires practitioners to envision a design while biting down on a folded strip of thin, pliable tree bark. Birch bark biters punch small holes in the bark ...

Students at Winnipeg's Oakenwald School literally sank their teeth into learning about Indigenous tradition this week, as Cree artist Pat Bruderer spent three days showing kindergarten to Grade 6 ...

Why not. Time didn't end when the buffalo stopped roaming and the treaty ink dried. The first people of Minnesota live on, holding to traditional ways but adapting to modern urban life. So there hangs ...