Excellent native skills- birchbark canoe and working with birch gum

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    Ran across a fantastic quick movie from the 40's about building a birch bark canoe. While I love the native technology of the canoe construction, the methods of working the birch sap down are absolutely fantastic. Boil it in a bag, heat it up and drop it in cold water- awesome stuff, I can't wait to try some of the techniques.

     
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    Nice find.
     
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    That is an awesome video.
     
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    I can watch these all day long. Ran across another one. The amount of skill, knowledge and work that goes inthis is astounding.

    This one won't embed how I normally embed a youtube video, but it is worth your hour....

    https://www.nfb.ca/film/cesars_bark_canoe/
     
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