They regularly imitate the shape of either palm leaves or strips of birch bark.
All the old palm leaf, birch bark, and paper Sanskrit MSS.
As for a fire, it was a matter of chopping down dead trees large enough to have remained dry inside, of armfuls of birch bark, and of the patient drying out, by repeated ignition, of enough fuel to cook very simple meals.
You will need a greater quantity of birch bark, a bigger pile of resinous dead limbs from the pine trees, and perhaps the heart of a dead pine stub or stump.
The only sure way is as follows: Hold a piece ofbirch bark in your hand.
They fill up the crannies between the logs with moss and turf, but on the roof they lay first a covering of birch bark to keep things close and dry.
I lit my fire, invariably with success, with peelings of birch bark that I had sedulously collected during my walks.
The men pass most of this quiet time in carving wood and making various articles out of birch bark.
We substituted for his note a card containing our names and destination, and the date of our visit, which Polis neatly inclosed in a piece of birch bark to keep it dry.
We had thrown away the pork-keg, and wrapt its contents in birch bark, which is the unequaled wrapping-paper of the woods.
We had thrown away the pork-keg and wrapped its contents in birch bark.
He showed me how to write on the under side of birch bark with a black spruce twig, which is hard and tough and can be brought to a point.
The tents of the prairie Indians were of skins, and those of the Indians who inhabit the woods of birch bark.
All this time he slept outside our tent, under shelter of a simple lean-to of birch bark.
Against these pales were placed large slabs of birch bark, in layers, which, having a tendency to regain their circular form, cling round the cone, and are further secured with bands of fibre.
The wood is of much value to all the Ojibwe, especially for making awls to punch holes in birch bark as they are sewing it with Jack Pine roots.
Most of the sap vessels and storage vessels are made of birch bark, sewed with boiled basswood fiber or the core of the Jack Pine root.
Families make a pilgrimage to birch groves during the latter part of June and in July to gather their supply of birch bark, because it peels most easily at that time.
Although it is highly inflammable, still buckets ofbirch bark can be used to cook meats.
In one of these excursions, a Chippewa found in a conspicuous place, a piece of birch bark, made flat by being fastened between two sticks at each end, and about eighteen inches long by fifteen broad.
Rollo accordingly went to the nearest fire, and got a quantity of birch bark, which he had collected there to aid him in kindling his fires.
Now," continued Jonas, "light a small piece of birch bark, and put it in.
Well, I bet you can't find skins or Birch bark enough in this woods to make a teepee big enough for a Chipmunk to chaw nuts in.
Yan made a number of vessels out of Birch bark, stitching the edges with root fibers, filling the bottom with a round wooden disc, and cementing the joints with pine gum so that they would hold water.
Fire in the Rain= To build a fire in the rain with no dry wood in sight seems a difficult problem, but keep cheerful, hum your favorite tune, and look for a pine-knot or birch bark and an old dead stump or log.
In the centre of the dead wood you will find dry wood; dig it out and, after starting the fire with either birch barkor pine-knot, use the dry wood as kindling.
At each end across these lay two smaller sticks, and in the hollow square formed by the four sticks, put the tinder of cones, birch bark, or dry leaves.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "birch bark" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
