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A Russian birch bark letter from the 14th century
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Birch bark or birchbark is the bark of several Eurasian and North American birch trees of the genus Betula.

The strong and water-resistant cardboard-like bark can be easily cut, bent, and sewn, which has made it a valuable building, crafting, and writing material, since pre-historic times. Today, birch bark remains a popular type of wood for various handicrafts and arts.

Birch bark also contains substances of medicinal and chemical interest. Some of those products (such as betulin) also have fungicidal properties that help preserve bark artifacts, as well as food preserved in bark containers.

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Birch bark

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Birch bark or birchbark is the bark of several Eurasian and North American birch trees of the genus Betula. The strong and water-resistant cardboard-like...

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Birch bark tar

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Birch bark tar (sometimes referred to as birch bark pitch) is a substance that is synthesized by dry distillation of birch tree bark. Birch bark tar is...

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Birch bark manuscript

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Birch bark manuscripts are documents written on pieces of the inner layer of birch bark, which was commonly used for writing before the mass production...

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Birch

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the seeds, unlike the woody, cone-like female alder catkins. The bark of all birches is characteristically marked with long, horizontal lenticels, and...

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Birch beer

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Birch beer is a beverage, commonly found as a carbonated soft drink made from herbal extracts and birch bark. There are dozens of brands of birch beer...

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Betula papyrifera

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birch is named after the tree's thin white bark, which often peels in paper-like layers from the trunk. Paper birch is often one of the first species to colonize...

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Wiigwaasabak

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Anishinaabe syllabics: ᐧᐆᒃᐧᐋᓴᐸᒃ, plural: wiigwaasabakoon ᐧᐆᒃᐧᐋᓴᐸᑰᓐ) is a birch bark scroll, on which the Ojibwa (Anishinaabe) people of North America wrote...

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Sod roof

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roof is birch bark. The main purpose of the sod is to hold the birch bark in place. The roof might just as well have been called a "birch bark roof", but...

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Canoe

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an important theme in popular culture. For instance, the birch bark canoe of the largely birch-based culture of the of the First Nations of Quebec, Canada...

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Old Novgorod dialect

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by Andrey Zaliznyak to describe the Old East Slavic dialect found in birch bark writings (berestyanaya gramota). Dating from the 11th to 15th centuries...

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Onfim

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1220 or 1260. He left his notes and homework exercises scratched in soft birch bark which was preserved in the clay soil of Novgorod. Onfim, who was most...

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Betula pendula

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[citation needed] The silver birch is a medium-sized deciduous tree that owes its common name to the white peeling bark on the trunk. The twigs are slender...

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Prunus serrula

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Prunus serrula, called birch bark cherry, birchbark cherry, paperbark cherry, or Tibetan cherry, is a species of cherry native to China, and is used as...

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Birch triterpenes

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Birch triterpenes, sold under the brand name Filsuvez, is an extract of birch bark used as a topical medication for the treatment of epidermolysis bullosa...

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Betula nigra

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trunks. Bark Bark characteristics of the river birch differ during its youth stage, maturation, and old growth. The bark of a young river birch can vary...

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Root beer

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wintergreen, black cherry bark, licorice root, sarsaparilla root, nutmeg, acacia, anise, molasses, cinnamon, sweet birch, and honey. Soybean protein...

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Birchbark biting

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described either as "birch bark bitings" or "birch bark transparencies." Artists chose thin and flexible pieces of birch bark. This kind of bark is easiest to...

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Rigveda

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written down about the 3rd-century BCE. The manuscripts were made from birch bark or palm leaves, which decompose and therefore were routinely copied over...

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Adhesive

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years ago, when Neanderthals produced tar from the dry distillation of birch bark for use in binding stone tools to wooden handles. The first references...

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Betula pubescens

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Betula alba), commonly known as downy birch and also as moor birch, white birch, European white birch or hairy birch, is a species of deciduous tree, native...

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Neanderthal

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Neanderthal produced the adhesive birch bark tar, using the bark of birch trees, for hafting. It was long believed that birch bark tar required a complex recipe...

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Russia leather

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form of bark-tanned cow leather. It is distinguished from other types of leather by a processing step that takes place after tanning, where birch oil is...

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Tinder

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Paper, paper towels, toilet paper, etc. Dry pine needles, leaves or grass Birch bark Dead, standing (usually one season old) goldenrod Cloth, lint, or frayed...

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Midewiwin

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wedizhichigewinid—Deeds of a Little-boy. Mide societies keep wiigwaasabak (birch bark scrolls) that preserve their teachings. They have degrees of initiations...

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Ojibwe

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Ojibwe words. According to Ojibwe oral history and from recordings in birch bark scrolls, the Ojibwe originated from the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River...

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Willow

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though it spreads widely across the ground. Willows all have abundant watery bark sap, which is heavily charged with salicylic acid, soft, usually pliant,...

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