{"id": 10056, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 24, "label": "Cahuilla"}, "source": {"value": 31, "label": "bs72"}, "pageno": "55", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 52, "label": "Fruit"}, "notes": "Eaten fresh.", "rawsource": "Bean, Lowell John and Katherine Siva Saubel, 1972, Temalpakh (From the Earth); Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants, Banning, CA. Malki Museum Press, page 55"}
{"id": 10057, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 24, "label": "Cahuilla"}, "source": {"value": 31, "label": "bs72"}, "pageno": "55", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 59, "label": "Winter Use Food"}, "notes": "Cut, peeled into strips and dried for winter use.", "rawsource": "Bean, Lowell John and Katherine Siva Saubel, 1972, Temalpakh (From the Earth); Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants, Banning, CA. Malki Museum Press, page 55"}
{"id": 10058, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 32, "label": "Cherokee"}, "source": {"value": 1, "label": "hc75"}, "pageno": "61", "use_category": {"value": 2, "label": "Drug"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 3, "label": "Kidney Aid"}, "notes": "Infusion of seeds taken for kidney trouble.", "rawsource": "Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 61"}
{"id": 10059, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 32, "label": "Cherokee"}, "source": {"value": 1, "label": "hc75"}, "pageno": "61", "use_category": {"value": 2, "label": "Drug"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 42, "label": "Pediatric Aid"}, "notes": "Seeds chewed for bedwetting.", "rawsource": "Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 61"}
{"id": 10060, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 32, "label": "Cherokee"}, "source": {"value": 1, "label": "hc75"}, "pageno": "61", "use_category": {"value": 2, "label": "Drug"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 80, "label": "Urinary Aid"}, "notes": "Seeds chewed for bedwetting.", "rawsource": "Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 61"}
{"id": 10061, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 32, "label": "Cherokee"}, "source": {"value": 1, "label": "hc75"}, "pageno": "61", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": null, "notes": "Species used for food.", "rawsource": "Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 61"}
{"id": 10062, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 33, "label": "Cheyenne"}, "source": {"value": 57, "label": "h81"}, "pageno": "24", "use_category": {"value": 2, "label": "Drug"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 117, "label": "Diuretic"}, "notes": "Decoction of seeds taken as a diuretic.", "rawsource": "Hart, Jeffrey A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 4:1-55, page 24"}
{"id": 10063, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 35, "label": "Chickasaw"}, "source": {"value": 115, "label": "t40"}, "pageno": "59", "use_category": {"value": 2, "label": "Drug"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 80, "label": "Urinary Aid"}, "notes": "Decoction of mashed seeds taken for blood in the urine.", "rawsource": "Taylor, Linda Averill, 1940, Plants Used As Curatives by Certain Southeastern Tribes, Cambridge, MA. Botanical Museum of Harvard University, page 59"}
{"id": 10064, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 44, "label": "Cocopa"}, "source": {"value": 178, "label": "giff33"}, "pageno": "266", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 4, "label": "Dried Food"}, "notes": "Dried, whole seeds used for food.", "rawsource": "Gifford, E. W., 1933, The Cocopa, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 31:263-270, page 266"}
{"id": 10065, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 44, "label": "Cocopa"}, "source": {"value": 178, "label": "giff33"}, "pageno": "266", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 52, "label": "Fruit"}, "notes": "Ripe melon scooped with fingers and used for food.", "rawsource": "Gifford, E. W., 1933, The Cocopa, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 31:263-270, page 266"}
{"id": 10066, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 44, "label": "Cocopa"}, "source": {"value": 178, "label": "giff33"}, "pageno": "266", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 59, "label": "Winter Use Food"}, "notes": "Ripe and green melons stored in pits and the green melons ripened in storage.", "rawsource": "Gifford, E. W., 1933, The Cocopa, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 31:263-270, page 266"}
{"id": 10067, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 89, "label": "Havasupai"}, "source": {"value": 2, "label": "ws85"}, "pageno": "66", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 52, "label": "Fruit"}, "notes": "Fruit eaten fresh.", "rawsource": "Weber, Steven A. and P. David Seaman, 1985, Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture, Tucson. The University of Arizona Press, page 66"}
{"id": 10068, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 89, "label": "Havasupai"}, "source": {"value": 2, "label": "ws85"}, "pageno": "243", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 44, "label": "Porridge"}, "notes": "Seeds parched and ground to make sumkwin and other dishes.", "rawsource": "Weber, Steven A. and P. David Seaman, 1985, Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture, Tucson. The University of Arizona Press, page 243"}
{"id": 10069, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 89, "label": "Havasupai"}, "source": {"value": 2, "label": "ws85"}, "pageno": "243", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 141, "label": "Planting Seeds"}, "notes": "Seeds stored for future planting.", "rawsource": "Weber, Steven A. and P. David Seaman, 1985, Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture, Tucson. The University of Arizona Press, page 243"}
{"id": 10070, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 95, "label": "Hopi"}, "source": {"value": 37, "label": "w39"}, "pageno": "92", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 131, "label": "Cooking Agent"}, "notes": "Seeds ground and used to oil the 'piki' stones.", "rawsource": "Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 92"}
{"id": 10071, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 95, "label": "Hopi"}, "source": {"value": 37, "label": "w39"}, "pageno": "92", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 75, "label": "Staple"}, "notes": "Eaten and considered to be almost a staple food.", "rawsource": "Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 92"}
{"id": 10072, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 95, "label": "Hopi"}, "source": {"value": 37, "label": "w39"}, "pageno": "92", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": null, "notes": "Seeds parched and eaten with parched corn and 'piki.'", "rawsource": "Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 92"}
{"id": 10073, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 100, "label": "Iroquois"}, "source": {"value": 7, "label": "h77"}, "pageno": "451", "use_category": {"value": 2, "label": "Drug"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 80, "label": "Urinary Aid"}, "notes": "Compound decoction of roots and seeds taken for urine stoppage.", "rawsource": "Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 451"}
{"id": 10074, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 100, "label": "Iroquois"}, "source": {"value": 112, "label": "w16"}, "pageno": "113", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 2, "label": "Bread & Cake"}, "notes": "Fresh or dried flesh boiled, mashed and mixed into the paste when making corn bread.", "rawsource": "Waugh, F. W., 1916, Iroquis Foods and Food Preparation, Ottawa. Canada Department of Mines, page 113"}
{"id": 10075, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 100, "label": "Iroquois"}, "source": {"value": 112, "label": "w16"}, "pageno": "113", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 4, "label": "Dried Food"}, "notes": "Flesh cut into strips, dried and stored away.", "rawsource": "Waugh, F. W., 1916, Iroquis Foods and Food Preparation, Ottawa. Canada Department of Mines, page 113"}
{"id": 10076, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 100, "label": "Iroquois"}, "source": {"value": 112, "label": "w16"}, "pageno": "113", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 47, "label": "Special Food"}, "notes": "Squash eaten at feasts of ceremonial importance and longhouse ceremonies.", "rawsource": "Waugh, F. W., 1916, Iroquis Foods and Food Preparation, Ottawa. Canada Department of Mines, page 113"}
{"id": 10077, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 100, "label": "Iroquois"}, "source": {"value": 112, "label": "w16"}, "pageno": "113", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 31, "label": "Vegetable"}, "notes": "Flesh boiled, baked in ashes or boiled, mashed with butter and sugar and eaten.", "rawsource": "Waugh, F. W., 1916, Iroquis Foods and Food Preparation, Ottawa. Canada Department of Mines, page 113"}
{"id": 10078, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 100, "label": "Iroquois"}, "source": {"value": 112, "label": "w16"}, "pageno": "113", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 31, "label": "Vegetable"}, "notes": "Flesh fried and sweetened or seasoned with salt, pepper and butter.", "rawsource": "Waugh, F. W., 1916, Iroquis Foods and Food Preparation, Ottawa. Canada Department of Mines, page 113"}
{"id": 10079, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 103, "label": "Kamia"}, "source": {"value": 180, "label": "g31"}, "pageno": "21", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": null, "notes": "Species used for food.", "rawsource": "Gifford, E. W., 1931, The Kamia of Imperial Valley, Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, page 21"}
{"id": 10080, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 111, "label": "Kiowa"}, "source": {"value": 140, "label": "vs39"}, "pageno": "53", "use_category": {"value": 2, "label": "Drug"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 13, "label": "Poison"}, "notes": "Unripened plant considered poisonous.", "rawsource": "Vestal, Paul A. and Richard Evans Schultes, 1939, The Economic Botany of the Kiowa Indians, Cambridge MA. Botanical Museum of Harvard University, page 53"}
{"id": 10081, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 139, "label": "Meskwaki"}, "source": {"value": 21, "label": "smith28"}, "pageno": "257", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": null, "notes": "Melon used for food.", "rawsource": "Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 257"}
{"id": 10082, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 157, "label": "Navajo"}, "source": {"value": 119, "label": "steg41"}, "pageno": "222", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 4, "label": "Dried Food"}, "notes": "Fruit cut into strips, wound upon sticks in the form of a rope, sun dried and stored for months.", "rawsource": "Steggerda, Morris, 1941, Navajo Foods and Their Preparation, Journal of the American Dietetic Association 17(3):217-25, page 222"}
{"id": 10083, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 159, "label": "Navajo, Ramah"}, "source": {"value": 18, "label": "v52"}, "pageno": "46", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": null, "notes": "Watermelon cultivated and used for food.", "rawsource": "Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 46"}
{"id": 10084, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 159, "label": "Navajo, Ramah"}, "source": {"value": 18, "label": "v52"}, "pageno": "46", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 59, "label": "Winter Use Food"}, "notes": "Watermelon sliced into strips, dried and stored for winter use.", "rawsource": "Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 46"}
{"id": 10085, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 175, "label": "Okanagan-Colville"}, "source": {"value": 32, "label": "tbk80"}, "pageno": "98", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": null, "notes": "Species used for food.", "rawsource": "Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 98"}
{"id": 10086, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 193, "label": "Pima"}, "source": {"value": 104, "label": "r08"}, "pageno": "75", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 52, "label": "Fruit"}, "notes": "Fruits eaten as one of the most important foods.", "rawsource": "Russell, Frank, 1908, The Pima Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #26:1-390, page 75"}
{"id": 10087, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 211, "label": "Rappahannock"}, "source": {"value": 102, "label": "shc42"}, "pageno": "30", "use_category": {"value": 2, "label": "Drug"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 3, "label": "Kidney Aid"}, "notes": "Infusion of seeds taken for gravel (kidney stones).", "rawsource": "Speck, Frank G., R.B. Hassrick and E.S. Carpenter, 1942, Rappahannock Herbals, Folk-Lore and Science of Cures, Proceedings of the Delaware County Institute of Science 10:7-55., page 30"}
{"id": 10088, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 211, "label": "Rappahannock"}, "source": {"value": 102, "label": "shc42"}, "pageno": "30", "use_category": {"value": 2, "label": "Drug"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 34, "label": "Veterinary Aid"}, "notes": "Infusion of seeds given to horses for gravel (kidney stones).", "rawsource": "Speck, Frank G., R.B. Hassrick and E.S. Carpenter, 1942, Rappahannock Herbals, Folk-Lore and Science of Cures, Proceedings of the Delaware County Institute of Science 10:7-55., page 30"}
{"id": 10089, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 228, "label": "Seminole"}, "source": {"value": 88, "label": "s54"}, "pageno": "479", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": null, "notes": "Plant used for food.", "rawsource": "Sturtevant, William, 1954, The Mikasuki Seminole:  Medical Beliefs and Practices, Yale University, PhD Thesis, page 479"}
{"id": 10090, "species": {"value": 979, "label": "Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus"}, "tribe": {"value": 234, "label": "Sia"}, "source": {"value": 159, "label": "w62"}, "pageno": "106", "use_category": {"value": 1, "label": "Food"}, "use_subcategory": null, "notes": "Cultivated watermelons used for food.", "rawsource": "White, Leslie A., 1962, The Pueblo of Sia, New Mexico, XXX SI-BAE  Bulletin #, page 106"}