miscawa

Updated: May 23, 2025

So they sought in a sunny place along the shore, and found the fruit of the squawberry or blitum. "See," said Akoko, "the miscawa. Gather a handful, my Nagami. They make the red basket-dye." They crushed the rich red berries, saving the red juice in a clam shell, and soaked a few strands of the white willow bark in the stain.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Woodland Tales