France Densmore's publication "Chippewa Customs" says that if a child was chafed, a healing powder was made from rotten oak, rubbed to extreme fineness and freely applied.
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number:
III-I-715
Collection Narratives and Histories
1912/04/01 - 1912/07/31, (F.W. Waugh collection list) "Indian toilet powder (rotten wood). Sam Hill (Mohawk)." John Moses, Acting Curator of Eastern Woodlands Ethnology, CMC (2006/1/17) suggests this "toilet powder" functions as talcum or baby powder - the rotten is rubbed to powder fineness, then applied to prevent chafing.
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