IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Dona Look travels throughout the ...

Linda Ross (right) has made several birch bark baskets with help from her friend, Helen Dick. (Sabine Poux/KDLL) When it’s warm and wet, birch bark can be folded into baskets — a container for berries ...

Birch bark has long been the favored material of basket makers in Finland, Sweden and Russia for making essential items such as containers, shoes, hats, and backpacks. The bark is naturally ...

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 ...