The Moment So Many Of You Have Been Waiting For! The museum is now carrying Yaupon Tea in the gift shop! Straight from Savannah, GA, our tea is from the lovely Asi Yaupon Tea Company. They have a mission that we at the museum appreciate with their goals of celebrating […]
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Make Sure To Schedule Our 2018 Spring Event Like so many years before, the Frisco Native American Museum is holding an event at the end of April that promises to be like no other event we’ve held before. Step back into time with our Discovery Days Walk through our pre-colonial […]
Part 4: How Do You Make Yaupon Tea?***DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MAKE TEA WITHOUT DEFINITE IDENTIFICATION OF THE TREE! Ingesting unknown plants is dangerous!*** Over the past month, we’ve had an overwhelming number of visitors requesting information on yaupon tea So we thought this was the perfect time to bring […]
Part 3: Did the settlers use Yaupon? Over the past month, we’ve had an overwhelming number of visitors requesting information on yaupon tea So we thought this was the perfect time to bring one of our past postings up again! As it was hinted in Part 2, the tradition of […]
Part 2: What was Yaupon used for? Over the past month, we’ve had an overwhelming number of visitors requesting information on yaupon tea So we thought this was the perfect time to bring one of our past postings up again! The first written documentation of it’s use on the island […]
Part 1: What is Yaupon? Over the past month, we’ve had an overwhelming number of visitors requesting information on yaupon tea So we thought this was the perfect time to bring one of our past postings up again! Yaupon (ilex vomitoria) is a bushy, evergreen shrub that can be found […]