Well, the Iroquois did not usually use birch bark, because it was widely spread. They mostly used barks such as elm or oak. They used these barks for efficiency during battle and practical, long lasting use. The Iroquois were a warrior people, so they needed strong bark.
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A type that can be used to make canoes.
yes! they used it to make canoes
native americans
native americans
Years ago, before the Europeans arrived, the Natives of north America that lived beside the rivers and lakes, developed a canoe whose skin was the bark of the birch tree. Birch bark can be stripped from the tree in such a way as to make long wide unbroken lengths of bark that can be laid onto the frame of a wooden canoe. Birch bark is water proof (as is all bark) and is also light enough to make carrying the canoe an easier task than the old idea of hollowing out a log.
Yes, Birch Bark was used to cover Canoes, and to make Shelters.
The Indian tribes they met and traded with taught them how to make canoes.
to make canoes and houses.
Some of the Algonquian tribes made canoes from hollowed logs - the Powhatan of the Virginia tidewater area certainly did. Many other Algonquian tribes made canoes of birch bark over a timber frame, including the Ojibwe, Maliseet, Cree, Algonkin and Naskapi.Canoes made by the Iroquois tribes were generally of elm bark over a timber frame.
Many American Indians of the Pacific Northwest and the Eastern Woodlands A lived in loghouses B made cedar-wood plank houses C used whae fat to make oil D made canoes from logs or birch bark
The California Intermount Indians made the Birch Bark canoes. They used them for getting from one end of a lake, or river and (or) back.