Identifier: annualreport6421910newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York State Museum
Subjects: New York State Museum Science Science
Publisher: Albany : University of the State of New York
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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erries constituted a load for a woman to carry. Huckleberries were raked from the bushes with the fingers.Swamp huckleberries, bushes that grew along streams runningthrough marshes, were bent over into a canoe and stripped of theirberries which fell into large containing baskets. In picking mountainhuckleberries or those which grew in snake infested places themoccasins were smeared with lard to frighten away the rattlers.The snakes, scenting the hog fat, would think that pigs were scout-ing for them. This description of the berry-picking industry applies to a largeextent to the Iroquois of the present day, especially the Seneca alongthe Cattaraugus, Allegany and Tonawanda. The first fruit of the year is the wild strawberry and this theIroquois takes as a symbol of the Creators renewed promise ofbeneficence. Quantities are gathered and brought to the f~ast-makers at the Long House for the Strawberry Thanksgiving. hisis an annual ceremony of importance though it lasts but a day. <M S
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