{"id":55,"date":"2013-05-02T13:26:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T21:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/?p=55"},"modified":"2013-05-02T13:26:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T21:26:26","slug":"culturally-modified-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/2013\/05\/02\/culturally-modified-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Culturally Modified Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_56\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/files\/2013\/05\/HousePhotos-015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/files\/2013\/05\/HousePhotos-015-198x300.jpg\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/files\/2013\/05\/HousePhotos-015-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/files\/2013\/05\/HousePhotos-015-678x1024.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ancient scar from bark stripping<\/p><\/div>\n<p>All along the BC coast and throughout the interior of the province evidence of ancient human practices can be found. One of the most intriguing is the result of the everyday Indigenous practice of harvesting red cedar bark. Cedar bark was (and remains so today) used for a range of everyday objects: rope, clothes, mats, baskets, etc.\u00a0 The process of peeling bark (you can see it <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/PksAApEORDs\" target=\"_blank\">here in a video <\/a>I&#8217;ve produced) is one portion of a longer process of harvesting, processing, and then manufacturing everyday items.\u00a0 Bark wasn&#8217;t the only thing harvested.\u00a0 One can find trees with entire planks removed.\u00a0 Other trees were selected to build large ocean going canoes.\u00a0 Other trees were modified with carvings or used as burial sites.\u00a0 Taken together theses ancient trees that show the markings of human practices are referred to as culturally modified trees (CMT).\u00a0 In British Columbia CMTs are protected under the provincial heritage act if the cultural modifications occurred prior to 1848.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All along the BC coast and throughout the interior of the province evidence of ancient human practices can be found. One of the most intriguing is the result of the everyday Indigenous practice of harvesting red cedar bark. Cedar bark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/2013\/05\/02\/culturally-modified-trees\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":369,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37328,37326],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notable","category-survivals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}