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a brown oval shaped basket made of folded, stitched together birch bark is filled with small round red berries

Photo By/Credit

Susan Georgette/USFWS

Date Shot/Created

11/24/2021

Media Usage Rights/License

Public Domain

Image

lowbush cranberries are one of several wild species sought out by local berry pickers - human and animal alike. Here the berries are held in a traditionally made birch-bark basket stitched together with spruce roots.

Facility

Selawik National Wildlife Refuge