birchbark canoes
Native American vessels
Birchbark canoes are lightweight watercraft made from the bark of birch trees stretched over a wooden frame, traditionally built by Indigenous peoples of North America.
The bark's flexibility and water resistance made these canoes ideal for navigating rivers and lakes: They paddled birchbark canoes through the wilderness.
The craft became essential to the fur trade.
- thwartsFrustrates or blocks
- gunwalesBoat's upper side edges
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- northern watersSeas of high latitudes
- pine resinConiferous tree secretion
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