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Ethel Greene discusses her cedar, fern and shell earrings Item Info

That is cedar and also the dark is fern that I gathered and then I just added the shells and the maidenhair fern. It is another grass, sort of a hard grass and it is sort of hard to work with. I have another basket that I worked with too that Dolores had showed me how to work with, but the grass up there is sort of different from down here and you have to gather it at different times. Red cedar you can find a lot down here but yellow cedar, there is no red cedar around here. In the lower half of the U.S. it is all gone. Alaska has a lot; you have to go to Alaska or up north to the British Columbia. Maidenhair fern, you can find maidenhair fern because I found it up towards Kamiah and Kooskia. In fact I found some cedar trees, which I already gathered up there. I will make another trip up there this spring.

Title:
Ethel Greene discusses her cedar, fern and shell earrings
Date Created:
2002-03
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Ethel Greene discusses her cedar, fern and shell earrings. (Interviewed by Ann McCormack, March 2002)
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"Ethel Greene discusses her cedar, fern and shell earrings", Nimíipuu L3, Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning (CDIL)
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https://cdil.lib.uidaho.edu/nimiipuu-l3/items/nimiipuu-l3-078.html
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