Soap root was used by Native Americans for fishing ( toss it in the
lake, fish float up, you spear them from a boat.), soap (as the
name suggests), and paint brushes(the outside of the root is
stringy.)
"A sword leafed plant that looks like what I have always called a
"Bear Onion". The older newcomers call it an "Indian Soap Root".
The newest newcomers call it an chlorogalum pomeridianum.
It was used by the Indians to bathe with. If you dig up the
plant, it has about a baseball sized root, that if you peal the
outside layers off will provide a white somewhat slimy surface. The
roots soap is said to cure poison oak. I don't get poison oak so I
don't know, also I've never known an Indian to get poison oak, so I
don't know where the legend came from."
Over all, this is my first hide, and I hope you enjoy finding it as
much as I did hiding it.