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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