Article: CANOE BUILDING TRADITION HELPS TO KEEP ANISHINABE CULTURE ALIVE.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)

Article: Tribe aims to reclaim canoe-building past
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  August 5, 2003 ;     550 words ... ... came here we were using birch-bark canoes. You could carry ... Penobscot River." The canoe building will take place at the ... resident Steve Cayard is the canoe-building teacher. Cayard has been making birch-bark canoes for years, one ...

Article: Using technology to tap birch bark's potential
AP Worldstream;  December 11, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... touting it as a skin toner and restorer, add birch bark extract to various products. And a birch bark compound, betulinic acid, is being tested ... isolate pure betulin and other compounds from birch bark in very large quantities. Building on university ...

Article: Birch-bark tar at Neolithic Makriyalos, Greece. ...
Antiquity;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... of molecular markers consistent with birch-bark tar. These results are the first evidence ... 700. The molecular identification of birch-bark tar Partial reconstructed ion chromatograms ... betulin) identify all three residues as birch-bark tar. Components 1 ([C.sub.30 ...

Article: Eternal birch bark. (woven birch bark ...
Russian Life;  October 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... he is a master of the art of beresta (birch bark) weaving. But why does Belov, whose ... its production of beresta, work with birch bark? "Most probably because it is an everlasting ... and the Kemerovo Region of Siberia, birch bark craftsmen are hard to find. So, for ...

Article: Middle Palaeolithic birch-bark pitch. (News & ...
Antiquity;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Anhalt, Germany, has revealed that birch-bark pitch was already produced in Neanderthal ... The finds are not only the oldest birch-bark pitch known, they also demonstrate that not ceramic but birch-bark pitch is the first synthetic material ...

Article: The birch bark muzhik.(artisan Vasily Chikov)(Brief ...
Russian Life;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... head--was made entirely of beresta (birch bark). VASILY CHIKOV IS A TRUE ORIGINAL ... in tea mugs made of, you guessed it, birch bark. But the most extraordinary find in ... linens. Maryino residents also wove birch bark shoes--lapti, which is how Chikov ...

Article: Birch Bark Wrapped Candles Recalled by Roost Due to ...
M2 Presswire;  November 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION: Birch Bark Wrapped Candles Recalled by Roost Due ... otherwise instructed. Name of Product: Birch Bark Wrapped Candles Units: About 1,200 ... firm has received three reports of the birch bark wrapping igniting as the candle burned ...