Word: husk
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...interesting collections, which were made among the Seneca Indians on the Cattaraugus Reservation in New York, have recently been received at the Peabody Museum. One of these, comprising pre-historic implements used in the preparation of food from corn, includes mortars, pestles, elm-bark dishes, corn-husk baskets, and ladles and spoons of wood. The other is a collection of the sacred paraphernalia, of a band of the Seneca tribe, which was worn in their sacred dances and ceremonies. It includes wooden and corn-husk masks, rattles of turtle shell and bark, and sacred tobacco...