Medium Heart Birch Bark Basket - 20071B

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, Birchbark

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