Black Walnut Bark

Title

Black Walnut Bark

Rights

Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Type

botanical

Creator

Bkejwanong/Walpole Island First Nation

Mrs. Hyman (Ada) Smith

Date

1933-07

Description

Pressed specimen of black walnut collected with Mrs. Hyman Smith behind the house of Charley Sword. Black walnut is rather scarce on the island. It is a strip of inner bark, ready to use as dye (from Volney Jones' 1933 field notes, Field no. 9).

Place

Canada

Walpole Island, Ontario

Alternative Title

Juglans nigra

Identifier

UMMAA 13976

Relation

UMMAA 13975 is from this tree

Provenance

Volney Jones and Mrs. Hyman (Ada) Smith