IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. From card: "Birch bark over frame of ...
World travel for birch bark canoe Marvin DeFoe paddled his first birch bark canoe part way down the Mississippi River. He didn't make it all that far -- at 18, his urge to get going was stronger than ...
NORTHWEST ANGLE, Minn. -- When a tribal elder on Lake of the Woods saw the birch bark canoe Talon Stammen was building, the native was quick with a quip. "You know they make those in Fiberglas now," ...
BIGFORK, Minn. - In his dilapidated workshop steeped in cedar sawdust and family history, Ray Boessel frets over his role in keeping a centuries-old craft alive. The craft is building birchbark canoes ...
LAC DU FLAMBEAU - People along the shore were yelling “Good luck, Wayne!” as Wayne Valliere paddled into the starlit night aboard his torch-laden birchbark canoe equipped with a handmade spear. One of ...
Birch bark canoes have been made in basically the same way by the Lake Superior Ojibwe for thousands of years, and were essential for collecting wild rice and for traveling on Lake Superior and rivers ...
The dawn of the modern history of the canoe can be traced, apparently, to the summer of 1856, when four guys from Peterborough, Ontario, embarked on a camping trip lugging a 200-pound dugout. After ...
Along the shore of the Nashwaak River, a tributary of the Wolastoq or St. John River, dozens of people gathered to celebrate the continuation of traditional canoe making when they attended the launch ...
Through the medium of birchbark, Michigan artist Ron Paquin found healing in his Native roots. Now he hopes to pass on his gift to the next generation. This article first appeared in Traverse Northern ...
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