Birch bark shoes held at the Museum at Sointula, B.C.

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Campbell, Sandy

• Weaving functional objects from birch bark is a traditional craft in Finland and other Northern European countries. These woven birch bark shoes and backpack (see related link) were donated to the Sointula Museum by the Renwell Family. The Sointula Museum holds artifacts and archival documents from the Finnish utopian community, begun on Malcolm Island, B.C. in 1909.

• Date created

  2016-06-18

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Footwear - Sointula Finnish utopian society
  • Handicraft - Finland
  • Shoes - woven birch bark
  • Canada, British Columbia, Sointula

• Type of Item

  Image

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R34F1MK6X

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International