Braided Onions?

I have seen braided peppers hanging in kitchens and restaurants in the southwest, but never onions. When Corky told me this past week that she was going to braid onions, I was a little skeptical. She showed me an article in an eco-gardening magazine and I have to admit, it looked kind of cool. So, I volunteered to help. (Oh the things I do for a beer.) She started with three onions and began to braid the tops together,

and then kept adding until about 10 onions were added together.

And voila... An Onion Braid which she hung in the kitchen - cool huh!

A couple of days later, I met a Yankton Sioux Indian gal who told me that her "old aunts" had always braided rutabagas together and hung them in their kitchens. Seems that braiding vegetables together to dry is an age old method.