Woven Swamp Milkweed Burden-Strap
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Oct 1940
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. William N. Fenton
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Plain, with traces of blue and red woolen yarn overlay. Swamp milkweed - no. K (Seneca), danok (Ca) or udasaoyat'a' ) Ca) 'for making burden strap.' Burden strap for carrying basket name (adasha (Oa) (Ca) gasha (s). Fiber is used. Jemima Warner Burning's mother (Sarah Beaver) made it. The milkweed is boiled in a big pot with wood ashes until the fiber is boiled away from the stalk. When dry the fiber is rolled on thigh with palm. The old women pulled up skirt and rolled fiber into string. Alternate continuous weft of 2 ply string. Decoration is with wool. Older method with dye. Brown: Walnut bark. The old women would carry basket on back from burden strap over forehead or across the shoulders and chest. Used also after childbirth as a binder. Ties as tight as possible around abdomen and worn about one week. Burden strap used because it will not stretch. (S. Gibson)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Caledonia, Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), Cayuga (Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ')
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 157965
label: USNM Number
content: E381022-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tump Line