Black Walnut Bark
Name
Black Walnut Bark
Scientific name
Juglans nigra
Type
botanical
Creator
Bkejwanong/Walpole Island First Nation
Mrs. Hyman (Ada) Smith
Spatial Coverage
Canada
Walpole Island, Ontario
Date (yyyy-mm-dd)
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).
Identifier
UMMAA 13976
Collector
Volney Jones and Mrs. Hyman (Ada) Smith
UM holding institution
Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
Relation
UMMAA 13975 is from this tree
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