Medium Heart Birch Bark Basket - 20073B

C$300.00
Availability: In stock

Handmade basket made by the Dene people of Fort Liard, small community near the legendary Nahanni National Park Reserve in the southwest corner of the Northwest Territories.

  • Artist: Gordan Kotchea
  • Community: Dene
  • Height: 3.5" Width: 6" 
  • Materials: Quills, Birch Bark

 

Birchbark Basket fabrication steps:

  1. Scrape, sand the bark, cut the pattern, and draw the design - 4 hours
  2. Sort and dye the quills - 3 hours
  3. Quill the design - 4 hours
  4. Gather and prepare (peeling, splitting, and trimming), spruce roots - 5 hours
  5. Basting the basket together - 2 hours
  6. Put the Basket together with the root - 2 hours

Total: 20.5 hours

 

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