© 1994 - Tara Prindle
unless otherwise cited.
Scenes from the Eastern Woodlands
A Virtual Tour ~ Circa 1550
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Picking cherries for our bread ... you will see the women out gathering one of the many berries that grow wild during the late summer months. We call July 'the month when the cherries turn black'. The choke cherries fruit comes on the trees every other year. So although last year there were hardly any cherries, this year there are here in great abundance. We pick them from the tall shrubby trees and gather them in our berry picking baskets which we make out of elm bark. Our baskets are in the shape of a cone with the bottom snipped off, from a piece of bark wrapped around and sewn up the side, and sewn across the bottom. Because berries and cherries stain our fingers and our baskets, we only use these baskets for gathering berries. We use the cherries in our breads or in sauces, or we grind them up (pits and all) and dry them and form them into little cakes to use them in the winter months. |
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