| Babiche |
| Babiche is made from rawhide and has multiple uses. Hide is denuded of hair through a soaking process, stretched until dried and cut into long narrow strips. Named by the early French traders, these thongs were used for fishing... |
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| Birch-Bark Biting |
| Birch-bark biting is the art of dentally perforating designs on intricately folded sheets of paper-thin bark. The technique is known to have been practised by OJIBWA (or Chippewa), CREE and other Algonquian groups who used... |
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| Calumet |
| Calumet, from the Norman-French term for pipe or pipestem in early North American historical records, was a potent item of ritual magic in a Plains MEDICINE BUNDLE and an object of religious symbolism. The calumet was also... |
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| Chilkat Blanket |
| The Chilkat blanket, associated with the Chilkat (a northern tribe of Tlingit), was traded along the Northwest Coast. The blanket was made of mountain goat wool spun over a core of cedar-bark string. The men hunted the goat,... |
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| Coppers |
| Coppers, pieces of copper hammered into the shape of a shield, were among the most valued items at Northwest Coast potlatches. They were often decorated with crests and designs. Each copper had a name, and its POTLATCH... |