Question

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word to complete the sentence.
The bark of the birch tree was used to prepare __________.

Answer 1

Hint: Birch bark is the husk of many Eurasian and North American birch trees of the genus Betula. The tough and water-resistant cardboard-like rind can be effortlessly scraped, bent, and sewn, which has earned it a productive building, preparing, and writing stuff, since the prehistoric period. Testimony of birch bark for writing goes back several centuries and in different cultures.

Complete answer:
Birch Bark manuscripts are copies jotted down on pieces of the internal sheet of birch bark.
The Bower Manuscript is one of the ancient Sanskrit scripts on birch bark in the Brahmi text. It contains several texts covering topics encompassing a medical treatise and sayings.
Buddhist manuscripts inscribed in the Gandhari terminology were engraved on birch bark and stocked in clay jars. The British Library obtained them in 1994.
The British Library birch husk manuscripts were in the shape of rolls. They were very delicate and had already worsened.
Birch bark is still utilized in some parts of India and Nepal for jotting down holy mantras.
So, the correct answer is inscribing before the origin of the mass generation of paper.

Note: During World War II, advertising papers and pamphlets circulated by guerilla fighters were periodically published on birch bark due to scarcity of paper.
There are birch bark characters composed in modern times, most notably by casualties of the Soviet repressions. Humans in Soviet coerced colonies and GULAG camps in Siberia welded strips of birch rind to jot down letters to their loved ones back residence, due to inaccessibility of paper. Illustrations of these letters from Latvian victims of the Soviet administration are nowadays being contemplated to be involved in the UNESCO "Memory of the World" heritage record.