Getting tulip bark to make bilum string

last edited Dec. 31, 2021, 1:18 a.m. by Steve

1-8 Gardening & Gathering

Participants

Date Team participants National participants
May 21, 2020 Natalie, Gerdine Amon

Description

Whilst cleaning the garden with a lot of other ladies, Amon went off to cut pieces of bark of a tulip tree. It was a younger Tulip tree. She tried to cut and pull the bark from the tree from as high as she could. Then she peeled the white skin of the inside of the bark out. They were curly long white/ yellow strips that she put in her bilum to take home with her to use to make bilum string out of it.

Texts

last edited June 3, 2020, 2:47 p.m. by Steve

    Speaker: Amon

last edited June 3, 2020, 2:47 p.m. by Steve

    Speaker: Amon

last edited June 3, 2020, 2:47 p.m. by Steve

    Speaker: Amon

Questions

Question Asked by Answer Answered by
What are these bilums for? Are they seen as necessity? Gerdine May 27, 2020, 2:21 p.m.
Do all ladies know this skill? Gerdine May 27, 2020, 2:21 p.m.