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

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Susan Georgette/USFWS

Date Shot/Created

11/24/2021

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Public Domain

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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.

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Selawik National Wildlife Refuge

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