{"id": 4798, "species": {"value": 366, "label": "Arisaema dracontium (L.) Schott"}, "tribe": {"value": 138, "label": "Menominee"}, "source": {"value": 51, "label": "s23"}, "pageno": "79", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Root used in sacred bundles and gave the power of supernatural dreams to the owner.", "rawsource": "Smith, Huron H., 1923, Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:1-174, page 79"}
{"id": 7258, "species": {"value": 580, "label": "Betula papyrifera Marsh."}, "tribe": {"value": 173, "label": "Ojibwa"}, "source": {"value": 20, "label": "smith32"}, "pageno": "414", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "No birch was gathered by the Ojibwe without due offering of tobacco to Winabojo & Grandmother Earth. Families made a pilgrimage to birch groves during the latter part of June and in July to gather their supply of birch bark, because it peels most easily at that time.", "rawsource": "Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 414"}
{"id": 7259, "species": {"value": 580, "label": "Betula papyrifera Marsh."}, "tribe": {"value": 173, "label": "Ojibwa"}, "source": {"value": 20, "label": "smith32"}, "pageno": "414", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Paper birch and cedar form the two most sacred trees of the Ojibwe, both of which were very useful.", "rawsource": "Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 414"}
{"id": 7260, "species": {"value": 580, "label": "Betula papyrifera Marsh."}, "tribe": {"value": 173, "label": "Ojibwa"}, "source": {"value": 20, "label": "smith32"}, "pageno": "414", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "The Ojibwe regard the bark as a distinct 'contribution from Winabojo.'", "rawsource": "Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 414"}
{"id": 7450, "species": {"value": 609, "label": "Bouteloua hirsuta Lag."}, "tribe": {"value": 157, "label": "Navajo"}, "source": {"value": 74, "label": "e44"}, "pageno": "25", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Used to make sacred charcoal for certain ceremonies.", "rawsource": "Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 25"}
{"id": 8105, "species": {"value": 752, "label": "Carex sp."}, "tribe": {"value": 102, "label": "Jemez"}, "source": {"value": 28, "label": "c30"}, "pageno": "21", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Plant considered sacred and used in the kiva.", "rawsource": "Cook, Sarah Louise, 1930, The Ethnobotany of Jemez Indians., University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 21"}
{"id": 9126, "species": {"value": 860, "label": "Chamaecyparis nootkatensis (D. Don) Spach"}, "tribe": {"value": 166, "label": "Nitinaht"}, "source": {"value": 101, "label": "ttco83"}, "pageno": "65", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Wood used to carve totem pole models and talking sticks.", "rawsource": "Turner, Nancy J., John Thomas, Barry F. Carlson and Robert T. Ogilvie, 1983, Ethnobotany of the Nitinaht Indians of Vancouver Island, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 65"}
{"id": 13246, "species": {"value": 1410, "label": "Epigaea repens L."}, "tribe": {"value": 206, "label": "Potawatomi"}, "source": {"value": 43, "label": "smith33"}, "pageno": "118", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Tribal flower of Forest Potawatomi and considered these flowers came directly from their divinity.", "rawsource": "Smith, Huron H., 1933, Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230, page 118"}
{"id": 17258, "species": {"value": 1896, "label": "Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv."}, "tribe": {"value": 138, "label": "Menominee"}, "source": {"value": 51, "label": "s23"}, "pageno": "75", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Grass used to burn as an oblation to the deities.", "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": 20550, "species": {"value": 2214, "label": "Lithospermum canescens (Michx.) Lehm."}, "tribe": {"value": 138, "label": "Menominee"}, "source": {"value": 51, "label": "s23"}, "pageno": "80", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "White, ripened seed used as a sacred bead in the Midewewin ceremony.", "rawsource": "Smith, Huron H., 1923, Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:1-174, page 80"}
{"id": 20736, "species": {"value": 2232, "label": "Lomatium californicum (Nutt.) Mathias & Constance"}, "tribe": {"value": 199, "label": "Poliklah"}, "source": {"value": 109, "label": "m66"}, "pageno": "173", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Plant considered the most sacred plant of the tribe.", "rawsource": "Merriam, C. Hart, 1966, Ethnographic Notes on California Indian Tribes, University of California Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley, page 173"}
{"id": 21451, "species": {"value": 2316, "label": "Lycium pallidum Miers"}, "tribe": {"value": 157, "label": "Navajo"}, "source": {"value": 72, "label": "f96"}, "pageno": "19", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Plant considered to be a sacred plant.", "rawsource": "Fewkes, J. Walter, 1896, A Contribution to Ethnobotany, American Anthropologist 9:14-21, page 19"}
{"id": 23160, "species": {"value": 2495, "label": "Mitella diphylla L."}, "tribe": {"value": 138, "label": "Menominee"}, "source": {"value": 51, "label": "s23"}, "pageno": "81", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Seed used as the sacred bead and swallowed in the medicine dance, during the reinstatement ceremony.", "rawsource": "Smith, Huron H., 1923, Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:1-174, page 81"}
{"id": 23984, "species": {"value": 2587, "label": "Nicotiana tabacum L."}, "tribe": {"value": 157, "label": "Navajo"}, "source": {"value": 74, "label": "e44"}, "pageno": "75", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Sacred plant depicted with beans, corn & squash in the first sacred painting of the Mountain Chant.", "rawsource": "Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 75"}
{"id": 27221, "species": {"value": 2938, "label": "Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr."}, "tribe": {"value": 122, "label": "Kwakiutl, Southern"}, "source": {"value": 63, "label": "tb73"}, "pageno": "269", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Branch tips used as sacred items.", "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 269"}
{"id": 29419, "species": {"value": 3100, "label": "Populus deltoides ssp. monilifera (Ait.) Eckenwalder"}, "tribe": {"value": 177, "label": "Omaha"}, "source": {"value": 17, "label": "g19"}, "pageno": "72", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Plant used to make the sacred pole.", "rawsource": "Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 72"}
{"id": 30922, "species": {"value": 3182, "label": "Prunus virginiana var. demissa (Nutt.) Torr."}, "tribe": {"value": 157, "label": "Navajo"}, "source": {"value": 74, "label": "e44"}, "pageno": "54", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Tree sacred to the Navajo.", "rawsource": "Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 54"}
{"id": 33207, "species": {"value": 3352, "label": "Rhus trilobata Nutt."}, "tribe": {"value": 157, "label": "Navajo"}, "source": {"value": 74, "label": "e44"}, "pageno": "60", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Used to make sacred baskets to hold sacred meal for rites.", "rawsource": "Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 60"}
{"id": 36894, "species": {"value": 3569, "label": "Sambucus racemosa var. racemosa"}, "tribe": {"value": 166, "label": "Nitinaht"}, "source": {"value": 101, "label": "ttco83"}, "pageno": "100", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Pithy branches hollowed out and used to make ceremonial and sacred wolf whistles.", "rawsource": "Turner, Nancy J., John Thomas, Barry F. Carlson and Robert T. Ogilvie, 1983, Ethnobotany of the Nitinaht Indians of Vancouver Island, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 100"}
{"id": 38855, "species": {"value": 3819, "label": "Staphylea trifolia L."}, "tribe": {"value": 139, "label": "Meskwaki"}, "source": {"value": 21, "label": "smith28"}, "pageno": "274", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Seeds considered sacred and used in the rattles of the medicine dance.", "rawsource": "Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 274"}
{"id": 39916, "species": {"value": 3950, "label": "Thuja occidentalis L."}, "tribe": {"value": 173, "label": "Ojibwa"}, "source": {"value": 20, "label": "smith32"}, "pageno": "421", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "This tree and the white cedar were worshipped as the two most useful trees in the forest.", "rawsource": "Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 421"}
{"id": 41663, "species": {"value": 4056, "label": "Umbellularia californica (Hook. & Arn.) Nutt."}, "tribe": {"value": 202, "label": "Pomo, Kashaya"}, "source": {"value": 40, "label": "gl80"}, "pageno": "90", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Plant very sacred to the Kashaya Pomo because of it's ceremonial uses.", "rawsource": "Goodrich, Jennie and Claudia Lawson, 1980, Kashaya Pomo Plants, Los Angeles. American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, page 90"}
{"id": 44473, "species": {"value": 4244, "label": "Zea mays L."}, "tribe": {"value": 157, "label": "Navajo"}, "source": {"value": 74, "label": "e44"}, "pageno": "27", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Cornmeal, considered less sacred than corn pollen, used in innumerable ceremonies.", "rawsource": "Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 27"}
{"id": 44474, "species": {"value": 4244, "label": "Zea mays L."}, "tribe": {"value": 157, "label": "Navajo"}, "source": {"value": 74, "label": "e44"}, "pageno": "27", "use_category": {"value": 3, "label": "Other"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 185, "label": "Sacred Items"}, "notes": "Sacred pollen used in innumerable ceremonies.", "rawsource": "Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 27"}