Birch bark basket making

1959 film of a woman making a birch bark basket (Color/Silent/16mm).
This sequence is an excerpt from AAF-1091 from the Machetanz Collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska & Polar Regions Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
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[@TheWildsourdough]

This is a fantastic demonstration of birch bark basket making. Thank goodness it was saved on film.

[@carlsonhistory]

it appears she was using the bark of a tree for the threading, what kind of tree is that?