{"id": 526, "species": {"value": 26, "label": "Acer macrophyllum Pursh"}, "tribe": {"value": 259, "label": "Thompson"}, "source": {"value": 10, "label": "tta90"}, "pageno": "147", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Inner bark used to make scouring pads and sometimes for weaving bags and for temporary baskets.", "rawsource": "Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany:  Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, page 147"}
{"id": 1759, "species": {"value": 91, "label": "Agave deserti Engelm."}, "tribe": {"value": 24, "label": "Cahuilla"}, "source": {"value": 31, "label": "bs72"}, "pageno": "31", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Pounded leaves dried and made into cleaning brushes for cooking water.", "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 31"}
{"id": 11787, "species": {"value": 1173, "label": "Cuscuta californica Hook. & Arn."}, "tribe": {"value": 24, "label": "Cahuilla"}, "source": {"value": 31, "label": "bs72"}, "pageno": "59", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Handfuls of plant used as scouring pads for cleaning.", "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 59"}
{"id": 12627, "species": {"value": 1319, "label": "Distichlis spicata (L.) Greene"}, "tribe": {"value": 24, "label": "Cahuilla"}, "source": {"value": 31, "label": "bs72"}, "pageno": "66", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Leaves used as a brushing material for cleaning implements or removing cactus thorns from objects.", "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 66"}
{"id": 13310, "species": {"value": 1421, "label": "Equisetum arvense L."}, "tribe": {"value": 122, "label": "Kwakiutl, Southern"}, "source": {"value": 63, "label": "tb73"}, "pageno": "264", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Rough leaves and stems used for polishing canoes and other wooden articles.", "rawsource": "Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1973, The Ethnobotany of the Southern Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, Economic Botany 27:257-310, page 264"}
{"id": 13321, "species": {"value": 1421, "label": "Equisetum arvense L."}, "tribe": {"value": 175, "label": "Okanagan-Colville"}, "source": {"value": 32, "label": "tbk80"}, "pageno": "17", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Stems used as sandpaper to polish bone tools and soapstone pipes.", "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 17"}
{"id": 13322, "species": {"value": 1421, "label": "Equisetum arvense L."}, "tribe": {"value": 175, "label": "Okanagan-Colville"}, "source": {"value": 32, "label": "tbk80"}, "pageno": "17", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Used to polish fingernails.", "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 17"}
{"id": 13338, "species": {"value": 1422, "label": "Equisetum hyemale L."}, "tribe": {"value": 21, "label": "Bella Coola"}, "source": {"value": 53, "label": "t73"}, "pageno": "196", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Stems formerly used for sandpaper to smooth wooden objects.", "rawsource": "Turner, Nancy J., 1973, The Ethnobotany of the Bella Coola Indians of British Columbia, Syesis 6:193-220, page 196"}
{"id": 13349, "species": {"value": 1422, "label": "Equisetum hyemale L."}, "tribe": {"value": 38, "label": "Chippewa"}, "source": {"value": 4, "label": "d28"}, "pageno": "377", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Used for scouring.", "rawsource": "Densmore, Frances, 1928, Uses of Plants by the Chippewa Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #44:273-379, page 377"}
{"id": 13351, "species": {"value": 1422, "label": "Equisetum hyemale L."}, "tribe": {"value": 53, "label": "Cowlitz"}, "source": {"value": 25, "label": "g73"}, "pageno": "15", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Used to polish arrow shafts.", "rawsource": "Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 15"}
{"id": 13368, "species": {"value": 1422, "label": "Equisetum hyemale L."}, "tribe": {"value": 115, "label": "Klamath"}, "source": {"value": 66, "label": "c97"}, "pageno": "88", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Used to smooth arrow shafts.", "rawsource": "Coville, Frederick V., 1897, Notes On The Plants Used By The Klamath Indians Of Oregon., Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium 5(2):87-110, page 88"}
{"id": 13374, "species": {"value": 1422, "label": "Equisetum hyemale L."}, "tribe": {"value": 138, "label": "Menominee"}, "source": {"value": 51, "label": "s23"}, "pageno": "75", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Used as a scouring rush for pots and pans.", "rawsource": "Smith, Huron H., 1923, Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:1-174, page 75"}
{"id": 13376, "species": {"value": 1422, "label": "Equisetum hyemale L."}, "tribe": {"value": 139, "label": "Meskwaki"}, "source": {"value": 21, "label": "smith28"}, "pageno": "268", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Used to scour pots and pans.", "rawsource": "Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 268"}
{"id": 13379, "species": {"value": 1422, "label": "Equisetum hyemale L."}, "tribe": {"value": 151, "label": "Montana Indian"}, "source": {"value": 30, "label": "h92"}, "pageno": "58", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Abrasive stems used to polish pipes, bows and arrows and formerly used to scrub tins and floors.", "rawsource": "Hart, Jeff, 1992, Montana Native Plants and Early Peoples, Helena. Montana Historical Society Press, page 58"}
{"id": 13381, "species": {"value": 1422, "label": "Equisetum hyemale L."}, "tribe": {"value": 173, "label": "Ojibwa"}, "source": {"value": 20, "label": "smith32"}, "pageno": "418", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Handful of stems used to scour the kettles and pans.", "rawsource": "Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 418"}
{"id": 13392, "species": {"value": 1422, "label": "Equisetum hyemale L."}, "tribe": {"value": 175, "label": "Okanagan-Colville"}, "source": {"value": 32, "label": "tbk80"}, "pageno": "17", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Stems used as sandpaper to polish bone tools and soapstone pipes.", "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 17"}
{"id": 13393, "species": {"value": 1422, "label": "Equisetum hyemale L."}, "tribe": {"value": 175, "label": "Okanagan-Colville"}, "source": {"value": 32, "label": "tbk80"}, "pageno": "17", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Used to polish fingernails.", "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 17"}
{"id": 13403, "species": {"value": 1422, "label": "Equisetum hyemale L."}, "tribe": {"value": 210, "label": "Quinault"}, "source": {"value": 25, "label": "g73"}, "pageno": "15", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Used to polish arrow shafts.", "rawsource": "Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 15"}
{"id": 13412, "species": {"value": 1422, "label": "Equisetum hyemale L."}, "tribe": {"value": 259, "label": "Thompson"}, "source": {"value": 10, "label": "tta90"}, "pageno": "86", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Rough, silicon impregnated stems used to smooth and polish implements of wood, bone and steatite. The stems were used to do the final polishing of wooden spoons and to polish the soft rock used for pipe bowls.", "rawsource": "Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany:  Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, page 86"}
{"id": 13421, "species": {"value": 1423, "label": "Equisetum hyemale var. affine (Engelm.) A.A. Eat."}, "tribe": {"value": 105, "label": "Karok"}, "source": {"value": 71, "label": "sg52"}, "pageno": "378", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Dried stalks used to sharpen mussel shell scrapers and for polishing arrows.", "rawsource": "Schenck, Sara M. and E. W. Gifford, 1952, Karok Ethnobotany, Anthropological Records 13(6):377-392, page 378"}
{"id": 13434, "species": {"value": 1424, "label": "Equisetum laevigatum A. Braun"}, "tribe": {"value": 105, "label": "Karok"}, "source": {"value": 70, "label": "b81"}, "pageno": "29", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Stems used to sandpaper madrone spoons.", "rawsource": "Baker, Marc A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Yurok, Tolowa and Karok Indians of Northwest California, Humboldt State University, M.A. Thesis, page 29"}
{"id": 13448, "species": {"value": 1424, "label": "Equisetum laevigatum A. Braun"}, "tribe": {"value": 175, "label": "Okanagan-Colville"}, "source": {"value": 32, "label": "tbk80"}, "pageno": "17", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Stems used as sandpaper to polish bone tools and soapstone pipes.", "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 17"}
{"id": 13449, "species": {"value": 1424, "label": "Equisetum laevigatum A. Braun"}, "tribe": {"value": 175, "label": "Okanagan-Colville"}, "source": {"value": 32, "label": "tbk80"}, "pageno": "17", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Used to polish fingernails.", "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 17"}
{"id": 13454, "species": {"value": 1424, "label": "Equisetum laevigatum A. Braun"}, "tribe": {"value": 176, "label": "Okanagon"}, "source": {"value": 55, "label": "p52"}, "pageno": "39", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Used for sharpening and polishing bone tools.", "rawsource": "Perry, F., 1952, Ethno-Botany of the Indians in the Interior of British Columbia, Museum and Art Notes 2(2):36-43., page 39"}
{"id": 13466, "species": {"value": 1424, "label": "Equisetum laevigatum A. Braun"}, "tribe": {"value": 259, "label": "Thompson"}, "source": {"value": 10, "label": "tta90"}, "pageno": "86", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Rough, silicon impregnated stems used to smooth and polish implements of wood, bone and steatite. The stems were used to do the final polishing of wooden spoons and to polish the soft rock used for pipe bowls.", "rawsource": "Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany:  Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, page 86"}
{"id": 13467, "species": {"value": 1424, "label": "Equisetum laevigatum A. Braun"}, "tribe": {"value": 259, "label": "Thompson"}, "source": {"value": 55, "label": "p52"}, "pageno": "39", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Used for sharpening and polishing bone tools.", "rawsource": "Perry, F., 1952, Ethno-Botany of the Indians in the Interior of British Columbia, Museum and Art Notes 2(2):36-43., page 39"}
{"id": 13476, "species": {"value": 1428, "label": "Equisetum sp."}, "tribe": {"value": 24, "label": "Cahuilla"}, "source": {"value": 31, "label": "bs72"}, "pageno": "70", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Used for a cleaning pad as a cleansing agent.", "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 70"}
{"id": 13485, "species": {"value": 1428, "label": "Equisetum sp."}, "tribe": {"value": 145, "label": "Modesse"}, "source": {"value": 109, "label": "m66"}, "pageno": "224", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Used to polish arrows.", "rawsource": "Merriam, C. Hart, 1966, Ethnographic Notes on California Indian Tribes, University of California Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley, page 224"}
{"id": 13486, "species": {"value": 1428, "label": "Equisetum sp."}, "tribe": {"value": 177, "label": "Omaha"}, "source": {"value": 17, "label": "g19"}, "pageno": "63", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Plant used like sandpaper for polishing.", "rawsource": "Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 63"}
{"id": 13488, "species": {"value": 1428, "label": "Equisetum sp."}, "tribe": {"value": 190, "label": "Pawnee"}, "source": {"value": 17, "label": "g19"}, "pageno": "63", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Plant used like sandpaper for polishing.", "rawsource": "Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 63"}
{"id": 13489, "species": {"value": 1428, "label": "Equisetum sp."}, "tribe": {"value": 205, "label": "Ponca"}, "source": {"value": 17, "label": "g19"}, "pageno": "63", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Plant used like sandpaper for polishing.", "rawsource": "Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 63"}
{"id": 13496, "species": {"value": 1428, "label": "Equisetum sp."}, "tribe": {"value": 259, "label": "Thompson"}, "source": {"value": 10, "label": "tta90"}, "pageno": "86", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Rough, silicon impregnated stems used to smooth and polish implements of wood, bone and steatite. The stems were used to do the final polishing of wooden spoons and to polish the soft rock used for pipe bowls.", "rawsource": "Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany:  Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, page 86"}
{"id": 13497, "species": {"value": 1428, "label": "Equisetum sp."}, "tribe": {"value": 259, "label": "Thompson"}, "source": {"value": 33, "label": "steed28"}, "pageno": "497", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Used to smooth and finish soapstone pipes.", "rawsource": "Steedman, E.V., 1928, The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522, page 497"}
{"id": 13512, "species": {"value": 1430, "label": "Equisetum telmateia Ehrh."}, "tribe": {"value": 122, "label": "Kwakiutl, Southern"}, "source": {"value": 63, "label": "tb73"}, "pageno": "264", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Rough leaves and stems used for polishing canoes and other wooden articles.", "rawsource": "Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1973, The Ethnobotany of the Southern Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, Economic Botany 27:257-310, page 264"}
{"id": 13525, "species": {"value": 1430, "label": "Equisetum telmateia Ehrh."}, "tribe": {"value": 243, "label": "Skokomish"}, "source": {"value": 25, "label": "g73"}, "pageno": "15", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Used with dogfish as sandpaper.", "rawsource": "Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 15"}
{"id": 13527, "species": {"value": 1430, "label": "Equisetum telmateia Ehrh."}, "tribe": {"value": 253, "label": "Swinomish"}, "source": {"value": 25, "label": "g73"}, "pageno": "15", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Used to polish arrow shafts.", "rawsource": "Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 15"}
{"id": 13531, "species": {"value": 1430, "label": "Equisetum telmateia Ehrh."}, "tribe": {"value": 287, "label": "Yuki"}, "source": {"value": 69, "label": "c57ii"}, "pageno": "92", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Stalks used to smooth Indian hemp stems and to polish arrows.", "rawsource": "Curtin, L. S. M., 1957, Some Plants Used by the Yuki Indians ... II. Food Plants, The Masterkey 31:85-94, page 92"}
{"id": 13542, "species": {"value": 1432, "label": "Equisetum variegatum Schleich. ex F. Weber & D.M.H. Mohr"}, "tribe": {"value": 137, "label": "Mendocino Indian"}, "source": {"value": 89, "label": "c02"}, "pageno": "304", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Silicious stems used as a substitute for sandpaper in finishing off arrows and other woodwork.", "rawsource": "Chestnut, V. K., 1902, Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California, Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium 7:295-408., page 304"}
{"id": 14752, "species": {"value": 1613, "label": "Festuca idahoensis Elmer"}, "tribe": {"value": 159, "label": "Navajo, Ramah"}, "source": {"value": 18, "label": "v52"}, "pageno": "16", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Bunch about a foot long, tied with string or yucca fiber, used as a brush for cleaning metates.", "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 16"}
{"id": 19310, "species": {"value": 2077, "label": "Koeleria macrantha (Ledeb.) J.A. Schultes"}, "tribe": {"value": 159, "label": "Navajo, Ramah"}, "source": {"value": 18, "label": "v52"}, "pageno": "16", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Bunch about a foot long, tied with string or yucca fiber, used as a brush for cleaning metates.", "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 16"}
{"id": 27513, "species": {"value": 2956, "label": "Pinus contorta var. murrayana (Grev. & Balf.) Engelm."}, "tribe": {"value": 259, "label": "Thompson"}, "source": {"value": 33, "label": "steed28"}, "pageno": "496", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Pitch mixed with grease and used for smoothing and polishing steatite pipes.", "rawsource": "Steedman, E.V., 1928, The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522, page 496"}
{"id": 29347, "species": {"value": 3097, "label": "Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray ex Hook.) Brayshaw"}, "tribe": {"value": 259, "label": "Thompson"}, "source": {"value": 10, "label": "tta90"}, "pageno": "276", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Inner bark used as a scouring pad.", "rawsource": "Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany:  Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, page 276"}
{"id": 38789, "species": {"value": 3806, "label": "Sporobolus cryptandrus (Torr.) Gray"}, "tribe": {"value": 159, "label": "Navajo, Ramah"}, "source": {"value": 18, "label": "v52"}, "pageno": "17", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Bunch about a foot long, tied with string or yucca fiber, used as a brush for cleaning metates.", "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 17"}
{"id": 39941, "species": {"value": 3951, "label": "Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don"}, "tribe": {"value": 21, "label": "Bella Coola"}, "source": {"value": 53, "label": "t73"}, "pageno": "197", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Inner bark used for sponges.", "rawsource": "Turner, Nancy J., 1973, The Ethnobotany of the Bella Coola Indians of British Columbia, Syesis 6:193-220, page 197"}
{"id": 40016, "species": {"value": 3951, "label": "Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don"}, "tribe": {"value": 92, "label": "Hesquiat"}, "source": {"value": 41, "label": "te82"}, "pageno": "35", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Finely beaten bark used as a sponge. Young boys, when they were starting to walk, were rubbed with this bark dipped in cold octopus broth to make them tough.  Girls were told to rub the same liquid on their hands to make them strong.", "rawsource": "Turner, Nancy J. and Barbara S. Efrat, 1982, Ethnobotany of the Hesquiat Indians of Vancouver Island, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 35"}
{"id": 40269, "species": {"value": 3951, "label": "Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don"}, "tribe": {"value": 259, "label": "Thompson"}, "source": {"value": 10, "label": "tta90"}, "pageno": "94", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 124, "label": "Scouring Material"}, "notes": "Inner bark, maple or cottonwood inner bark used to make scouring pads.", "rawsource": "Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany:  Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, page 94"}