Annual report . Seneca evaporating tray and berry pickers basket. The evaporating trayis used for green corn, pulpy fruits and berries. The tray is 40 inches inlength. E. R. Burmaster, collector, 1910 Plate 31. Cache of charred acorns excavated by Harrington and Parker, 1903(Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology Expedition) on the Silver-heels site, Brant township, Erie county, N. Y. IROQUOIS USES OF MAIZE 99 The thrifty housewife examines the teeth of the June mulletwhich her husband has caught in the creeks to see if the base of itsteeth is black. If so, it is an omen of a good blackber
Annual report . Seneca evaporating tray and berry pickers basket. The evaporating trayis used for green corn, pulpy fruits and berries. The tray is 40 inches inlength. E. R. Burmaster, collector, 1910 Plate 31. Cache of charred acorns excavated by Harrington and Parker, 1903(Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology Expedition) on the Silver-heels site, Brant township, Erie county, N. Y. IROQUOIS USES OF MAIZE 99 The thrifty housewife examines the teeth of the June mulletwhich her husband has caught in the creeks to see if the base of itsteeth is black. If so, it is an omen of a good blackberry year. Alegend states that frost will never come when blackberries are inblossom in berry. Hatho, the frost spirit, once entered the lodge ofOswinoda, the summer spirit, but a boy entering and seeing thestrange cold spirit in his fathers house threw a pot of hot blackberrysauce in the frost spirits face to his intense discomfort. There-after Hatho never ventured from his hiding place in the north fromthe time blackberries blossom until the fruit is mature. Blackberryjuice makes a fine drink in the winter for it frightens away thecold. Do not even bears eat berries all summer and defy theblasts of wint
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