Show birch biting a lost loit art birch biting is now an abandoned art but CO 50 or 60 00 years ago it was one of the ways in which the indian women of the chippewa tribe triba used to express their love ot of the tha ornate they would fold thin pieces ot of birch bark several times and then bite small email pieces out of the folded material when opened the bark would show geometric patterns ot of rough likenesses of leaves flowers or other objects specimens of this art have been preserved and are ara now on display at the national museum at washington |