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Definition of Birchbark
1. Noun. A canoe made with the bark of a birch tree.
Definition of Birchbark
1. Noun. The bark of the birch tree, especially the paper birch. ¹
2. Noun. A piece of this bark, formerly used for writing on. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Birchbark
Literary usage of Birchbark
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Indian: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the New World by Clark Wissler (1922)
"37- Decorations on birchbark from Eastern North America. The upper figures
represent the side and bottom of a bark vessel from the ..."
2. Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes by Christopher Vecsey (1983)
"Then the Supreme Being offered them birchbark scrolls, the mnemonic devices used in
... Furthermore, the birchbark scrolls contained sacred knowledge, ..."
3. Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes by Christopher T. Vecsey (1983)
"Then the Supreme Being offered them birchbark scrolls, the mnemonic devices used in
... Furthermore, the birchbark scrolls contained sacred knowledge, ..."
4. School Education (1907)
"The little folks make strings of beads, cornhusk dolls, clay dishes and arrowheads,
headdresses of feathers, paper or birchbark canoes, ..."
5. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 3/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"... berry dishes or baskets of birchbark, sewed like the wooden vessels with split
roots; baskets of birchbark with buckskin top and draw-string; ..."
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