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The Churchill Collection - Birch Bark Bitings Indigenous Art

This collection of scanned birch bark bitings includes backgrounds in the colours of Churchill, Manitoba. The artists hometown on the shores of the Hudson Bay. Half Moon Woman (Pat Bruderer) is a Cree Indigenous elder and cultural carrier the art form called Birch Bark Biting. A birch bark biting is made from biting an image, using only the teeth, into a thin, single layer of birch bark harvested from the birch tree. Then, by carefully folding the bark, the pattern imagined is pressed into the birch bark, using only the teeth. Historically, this art form was used to create beadwork patterns, to share stories and were used in ceremonies. In this collection called The Churchill Collection, Half Moon includes hi-resolution scans of the work on a backdrop of colours from the Hudson Bay area including that of the sea, arctic cranberries, and moss.

Unique item
1
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Total items
0
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Created
Apr 2022
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Creator earnings
5%
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Chain
Ethereum
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