{"id": 19299, "species": {"value": 2077, "label": "Koeleria macrantha (Ledeb.) J.A. Schultes"}, "tribe": {"value": 33, "label": "Cheyenne"}, "source": {"value": 57, "label": "h81"}, "pageno": "10", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Plants used as paint brushes to paint ceremonial participants.", "rawsource": "Hart, Jeffrey A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 4:1-55, page 10"}
{"id": 9737, "species": {"value": 922, "label": "Chlorogalum pomeridianum (DC.) Kunth"}, "tribe": {"value": 202, "label": "Pomo, Kashaya"}, "source": {"value": 40, "label": "gl80"}, "pageno": "107", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Bulb fibers tied into bundles to make scrub brushes and hair brushes.", "rawsource": "Goodrich, Jennie and Claudia Lawson, 1980, Kashaya Pomo Plants, Los Angeles. American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, page 107"}
{"id": 41105, "species": {"value": 4044, "label": "Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.) Carr."}, "tribe": {"value": 259, "label": "Thompson"}, "source": {"value": 10, "label": "tta90"}, "pageno": "111", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Broken boughs used by the handful as a bath brush.", "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 111"}
{"id": 11314, "species": {"value": 1113, "label": "Corylus cornuta var. cornuta"}, "tribe": {"value": 206, "label": "Potawatomi"}, "source": {"value": 43, "label": "smith33"}, "pageno": "112", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Bunch of twigs bound together and used as a broom.", "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 112"}
{"id": 8124, "species": {"value": 752, "label": "Carex sp."}, "tribe": {"value": 259, "label": "Thompson"}, "source": {"value": 10, "label": "tta90"}, "pageno": "114", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Leaves used as brushes for cleaning things.", "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 114"}
{"id": 38751, "species": {"value": 3796, "label": "Spiraea splendens var. splendens"}, "tribe": {"value": 23, "label": "Blackfoot"}, "source": {"value": 26, "label": "h74"}, "pageno": "123", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Flowering stems used as paint brushes, especially on the large spaces of tipis.", "rawsource": "Hellson, John C., 1974, Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 123"}
{"id": 5167, "species": {"value": 395, "label": "Artemisia dracunculus L."}, "tribe": {"value": 190, "label": "Pawnee"}, "source": {"value": 17, "label": "g19"}, "pageno": "134", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Plant tops bound into bundles and made into brooms used for sweeping the lodge floor. The plant was used for this purpose because of its agreeable, wholesome odor.", "rawsource": "Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 134"}
{"id": 7430, "species": {"value": 608, "label": "Bouteloua gracilis (Willd. ex Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths"}, "tribe": {"value": 15, "label": "Apache, White Mountain"}, "source": {"value": 45, "label": "r29"}, "pageno": "149", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Blades bundled by a cord, the stiff end used as a hair comb and the other end used as a broom.", "rawsource": "Reagan, Albert B., 1929, Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona, Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61., page 149"}
{"id": 4864, "species": {"value": 371, "label": "Aristida purpurea var. longiseta (Steud.) Vasey"}, "tribe": {"value": 159, "label": "Navajo, Ramah"}, "source": {"value": 18, "label": "v52"}, "pageno": "15", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Stems used to make hair brushes.", "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 15"}
{"id": 4865, "species": {"value": 371, "label": "Aristida purpurea var. longiseta (Steud.) Vasey"}, "tribe": {"value": 159, "label": "Navajo, Ramah"}, "source": {"value": 18, "label": "v52"}, "pageno": "15", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Stems used to make hair brushes.", "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 15"}
{"id": 44204, "species": {"value": 4234, "label": "Yucca schidigera Roezl ex Ortgies"}, "tribe": {"value": 24, "label": "Cahuilla"}, "source": {"value": 31, "label": "bs72"}, "pageno": "150", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Fiber used to make brushes for body painting.", "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 150"}
{"id": 23521, "species": {"value": 2541, "label": "Muhlenbergia pungens Thurb."}, "tribe": {"value": 95, "label": "Hopi"}, "source": {"value": 126, "label": "vest40"}, "pageno": "158", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Used to make brooms.", "rawsource": "Vestal, Paul A, 1940, Notes on a Collection of Plants from the Hopi Indian Region of Arizona Made by J. G. Owens in 1891, Botanical Museum Leaflets (Harvard University) 8(8):153-168, page 158"}
{"id": 16360, "species": {"value": 1787, "label": "Gutierrezia sp."}, "tribe": {"value": 97, "label": "Hualapai"}, "source": {"value": 127, "label": "w82"}, "pageno": "16", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Used as a utilitarian brush to remove stickers off prickly pear fruits and for sweeping the floor.", "rawsource": "Watahomigie, Lucille J., 1982, Hualapai Ethnobotany, Peach Springs, AZ. Hualapai Bilingual Program, Peach Springs School District #8, page 16"}
{"id": 23512, "species": {"value": 2535, "label": "Muhlenbergia andina (Nutt.) A.S. Hitchc."}, "tribe": {"value": 159, "label": "Navajo, Ramah"}, "source": {"value": 18, "label": "v52"}, "pageno": "16", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Stems used to make hair brushes.", "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": 23516, "species": {"value": 2539, "label": "Muhlenbergia mexicana (L.) Trin."}, "tribe": {"value": 159, "label": "Navajo, Ramah"}, "source": {"value": 18, "label": "v52"}, "pageno": "16", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Stems used to make hair brushes.", "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": 23520, "species": {"value": 2541, "label": "Muhlenbergia pungens Thurb."}, "tribe": {"value": 95, "label": "Hopi"}, "source": {"value": 72, "label": "f96"}, "pageno": "16", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Used to make a hair brush and broom.", "rawsource": "Fewkes, J. Walter, 1896, A Contribution to Ethnobotany, American Anthropologist 9:14-21, page 16"}
{"id": 39457, "species": {"value": 3902, "label": "Taxus brevifolia Nutt."}, "tribe": {"value": 53, "label": "Cowlitz"}, "source": {"value": 25, "label": "g73"}, "pageno": "16", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Used to make combs.", "rawsource": "Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 16"}
{"id": 39540, "species": {"value": 3902, "label": "Taxus brevifolia Nutt."}, "tribe": {"value": 210, "label": "Quinault"}, "source": {"value": 25, "label": "g73"}, "pageno": "16", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Used to make combs.", "rawsource": "Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 16"}
{"id": 14094, "species": {"value": 1520, "label": "Eriogonum nudum Dougl. ex Benth."}, "tribe": {"value": 144, "label": "Miwok"}, "source": {"value": 100, "label": "bg33"}, "pageno": "161", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Twigs and leaves used as a brush to clear ground under manzanita bushes before knocking off berries.", "rawsource": "Barrett, S. A. and E. W. Gifford, 1933, Miwok Material Culture, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 2(4):11, page 161"}
{"id": 26429, "species": {"value": 2879, "label": "Phleum pratense L."}, "tribe": {"value": 159, "label": "Navajo, Ramah"}, "source": {"value": 18, "label": "v52"}, "pageno": "17", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Stems used to make hair brushes.", "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": 42336, "species": {"value": 4085, "label": "Vaccinium parvifolium Sm."}, "tribe": {"value": 199, "label": "Poliklah"}, "source": {"value": 109, "label": "m66"}, "pageno": "173", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Long, straight, green branches used for brooms.", "rawsource": "Merriam, C. Hart, 1966, Ethnographic Notes on California Indian Tribes, University of California Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley, page 173"}
{"id": 7428, "species": {"value": 608, "label": "Bouteloua gracilis (Willd. ex Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths"}, "tribe": {"value": 14, "label": "Apache, Western"}, "source": {"value": 87, "label": "b86"}, "pageno": "189", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Stem used as comb and broom material.", "rawsource": "Buskirk, Winfred, 1986, The Western Apache:  Living With the Land Before 1950, Norman. University of Oklahoma Press, page 189"}
{"id": 9713, "species": {"value": 922, "label": "Chlorogalum pomeridianum (DC.) Kunth"}, "tribe": {"value": 106, "label": "Kawaiisu"}, "source": {"value": 60, "label": "z81"}, "pageno": "19", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Upper fiber ends dipped in starch, tied together and used as brushes. The brush was used in the following ways:  (1) to clean out the bedrock mortar hole before tobacco leaves were pounded and to remove the pulverized tobacco afterwards--a usage that probably applied to other materials--(2) to sweep fine meal off the sifting tray; (3) to brush the hair--an old brush must be used for this purpose or 'the hair ends will split'--and (4) when wet, to scrub things clean.", "rawsource": "Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 19"}
{"id": 37663, "species": {"value": 3642, "label": "Senecio flaccidus var. douglasii (DC.) B.L. Turner & T.M. Barkl."}, "tribe": {"value": 95, "label": "Hopi"}, "source": {"value": 72, "label": "f96"}, "pageno": "19", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Plant top used as a brush to remove spines from the prickly pears.", "rawsource": "Fewkes, J. Walter, 1896, A Contribution to Ethnobotany, American Anthropologist 9:14-21, page 19"}
{"id": 37666, "species": {"value": 3642, "label": "Senecio flaccidus var. douglasii (DC.) B.L. Turner & T.M. Barkl."}, "tribe": {"value": 157, "label": "Navajo"}, "source": {"value": 72, "label": "f96"}, "pageno": "19", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Plant top used as a brush to remove spines from the prickly pears.", "rawsource": "Fewkes, J. Walter, 1896, A Contribution to Ethnobotany, American Anthropologist 9:14-21, page 19"}
{"id": 27015, "species": {"value": 2934, "label": "Picea glauca (Moench) Voss"}, "tribe": {"value": 255, "label": "Tanana, Upper"}, "source": {"value": 36, "label": "k85"}, "pageno": "2", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Twigs used by young menstruating girls to clean their teeth and to scratch their heads with.", "rawsource": "Kari, Priscilla Russe, 1985, Upper Tanana Ethnobotany, Anchorage. Alaska Historical Commission, page 2"}
{"id": 40142, "species": {"value": 3951, "label": "Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don"}, "tribe": {"value": 175, "label": "Okanagan-Colville"}, "source": {"value": 32, "label": "tbk80"}, "pageno": "20", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Boughs used to scrub the skin in the sweathouse.", "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 20"}
{"id": 9715, "species": {"value": 922, "label": "Chlorogalum pomeridianum (DC.) Kunth"}, "tribe": {"value": 128, "label": "Luiseno"}, "source": {"value": 24, "label": "s08"}, "pageno": "203", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Bulb fiber made into small brushes used for sweeping up scattered meal after pounding acorns.", "rawsource": "Sparkman, Philip S., 1908, The Culture of the Luiseno Indians, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234, page 203"}
{"id": 43896, "species": {"value": 4225, "label": "Yucca baccata Torr."}, "tribe": {"value": 159, "label": "Navajo, Ramah"}, "source": {"value": 18, "label": "v52"}, "pageno": "21", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Leaf slivers made into paint brushes.", "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 21"}
{"id": 43897, "species": {"value": 4225, "label": "Yucca baccata Torr."}, "tribe": {"value": 159, "label": "Navajo, Ramah"}, "source": {"value": 18, "label": "v52"}, "pageno": "21", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Leaves made into brushes used for cleaning baskets.", "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 21"}
{"id": 1867, "species": {"value": 97, "label": "Agave utahensis Engelm."}, "tribe": {"value": 89, "label": "Havasupai"}, "source": {"value": 2, "label": "ws85"}, "pageno": "212", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Used to make brushes for the hair and for cleaning grinding stones. To make the brushes, the dried matter of a dead and rotten leaf was knocked free from the fibers, which were then bent in two.  The upper end of this brush was wrapped with a cord and the bent portion was covered with buckskin or cloth.  The loose fibers were cut to the right length and hardened by burning the ends.", "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 212"}
{"id": 4382, "species": {"value": 336, "label": "Arctostaphylos glauca Lindl."}, "tribe": {"value": 65, "label": "Diegueno"}, "source": {"value": 122, "label": "h75"}, "pageno": "219", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Branches used to make a broom.", "rawsource": "Hinton, Leanne, 1975, Notes on La Huerta Diegueno Ethnobotany, Journal of California Anthropology 2:214-222, page 219"}
{"id": 14701, "species": {"value": 1604, "label": "Fallugia paradoxa (D. Don) Endl. ex Torr."}, "tribe": {"value": 102, "label": "Jemez"}, "source": {"value": 28, "label": "c30"}, "pageno": "22", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Branches bound together & used as a broom for outdoor sweeping & to separate chaff from the wheat.", "rawsource": "Cook, Sarah Louise, 1930, The Ethnobotany of Jemez Indians., University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 22"}
{"id": 379, "species": {"value": 15, "label": "Acacia greggii Gray"}, "tribe": {"value": 89, "label": "Havasupai"}, "source": {"value": 2, "label": "ws85"}, "pageno": "225", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Twigs made into a brush and used to brush off metates.", "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 225"}
{"id": 19675, "species": {"value": 2102, "label": "Larrea tridentata var. tridentata"}, "tribe": {"value": 188, "label": "Papago"}, "source": {"value": 27, "label": "cu35"}, "pageno": "23", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Branches used to brush off the spines of prickly pears.", "rawsource": "Castetter, Edward F. and Ruth M. Underhill, 1935, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest II. The Ethnobiology of the Papago Indians, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(3):1-84, page 23"}
{"id": 9716, "species": {"value": 922, "label": "Chlorogalum pomeridianum (DC.) Kunth"}, "tribe": {"value": 128, "label": "Luiseno"}, "source": {"value": 24, "label": "s08"}, "pageno": "233", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Bulb fibers used to make a brush.", "rawsource": "Sparkman, Philip S., 1908, The Culture of the Luiseno Indians, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234, page 233"}
{"id": 39137, "species": {"value": 3854, "label": "Symphoricarpos occidentalis Hook."}, "tribe": {"value": 151, "label": "Montana Indian"}, "source": {"value": 73, "label": "b05"}, "pageno": "24", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Shrubs made into brooms.", "rawsource": "Blankinship, J. W., 1905, Native Economic Plants of Montana, Bozeman. Montana Agricultural College Experimental Station, Bulletin 56, page 24"}
{"id": 7592, "species": {"value": 640, "label": "Bromus sp."}, "tribe": {"value": 101, "label": "Isleta"}, "source": {"value": 76, "label": "j31"}, "pageno": "25", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Tied bunches of stems used to make brooms and brushes.", "rawsource": "Jones, Volney H., 1931, The Ethnobotany of the Isleta Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 25"}
{"id": 19309, "species": {"value": 2077, "label": "Koeleria macrantha (Ledeb.) J.A. Schultes"}, "tribe": {"value": 102, "label": "Jemez"}, "source": {"value": 28, "label": "c30"}, "pageno": "25", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Blades tied together and used as a broom.", "rawsource": "Cook, Sarah Louise, 1930, The Ethnobotany of Jemez Indians., University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 25"}
{"id": 23513, "species": {"value": 2536, "label": "Muhlenbergia cuspidata (Torr. ex Hook.) Rydb."}, "tribe": {"value": 157, "label": "Navajo"}, "source": {"value": 74, "label": "e44"}, "pageno": "25", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Stems used to make hair brushes and brooms for sweeping out the hogan.", "rawsource": "Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 25"}
{"id": 23545, "species": {"value": 2544, "label": "Muhlenbergia sp."}, "tribe": {"value": 157, "label": "Navajo"}, "source": {"value": 74, "label": "e44"}, "pageno": "25", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Used in the making of brushes and brooms.", "rawsource": "Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 25"}
{"id": 39124, "species": {"value": 3851, "label": "Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus (Fern.) Blake"}, "tribe": {"value": 50, "label": "Costanoan"}, "source": {"value": 16, "label": "b84"}, "pageno": "254", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Brushy stems used in brooms.", "rawsource": "Bocek, Barbara R., 1984, Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington, Economic Botany 38(2):240-255, page 254"}
{"id": 9706, "species": {"value": 922, "label": "Chlorogalum pomeridianum (DC.) Kunth"}, "tribe": {"value": 50, "label": "Costanoan"}, "source": {"value": 16, "label": "b84"}, "pageno": "255", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Fibrous bulb covers tied in bundles to make brushes.", "rawsource": "Bocek, Barbara R., 1984, Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington, Economic Botany 38(2):240-255, page 255"}
{"id": 9817, "species": {"value": 935, "label": "Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus (Hook.) Nutt."}, "tribe": {"value": 284, "label": "Yavapai"}, "source": {"value": 48, "label": "g36"}, "pageno": "257", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Stems used to brush off spines on fruits.", "rawsource": "Gifford, E. W., 1936, Northeastern and Western Yavapai, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 34:247-345, page 257"}
{"id": 14159, "species": {"value": 1530, "label": "Eriogonum sp."}, "tribe": {"value": 284, "label": "Yavapai"}, "source": {"value": 48, "label": "g36"}, "pageno": "257", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Stems used to brush off spines on fruits.", "rawsource": "Gifford, E. W., 1936, Northeastern and Western Yavapai, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 34:247-345, page 257"}
{"id": 1863, "species": {"value": 96, "label": "Agave sp."}, "tribe": {"value": 284, "label": "Yavapai"}, "source": {"value": 48, "label": "g36"}, "pageno": "259", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Grass stem brush used to transfer excess mescal juice from dish to slab.", "rawsource": "Gifford, E. W., 1936, Northeastern and Western Yavapai, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 34:247-345, page 259"}
{"id": 23522, "species": {"value": 2541, "label": "Muhlenbergia pungens Thurb."}, "tribe": {"value": 157, "label": "Navajo"}, "source": {"value": 74, "label": "e44"}, "pageno": "26", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Stems, pulled out of their sheaths when dry, tied with string and used as brooms and brushes.", "rawsource": "Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 26"}
{"id": 40056, "species": {"value": 3951, "label": "Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don"}, "tribe": {"value": 122, "label": "Kwakiutl, Southern"}, "source": {"value": 63, "label": "tb73"}, "pageno": "266", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Shredded bark used for paint brushes.", "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 266"}
{"id": 11218, "species": {"value": 1110, "label": "Corylus americana Walt."}, "tribe": {"value": 139, "label": "Meskwaki"}, "source": {"value": 21, "label": "smith28"}, "pageno": "267", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Twigs made into brushes for cleaning the earthen floors of the wigwams.", "rawsource": "Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 267"}
{"id": 32124, "species": {"value": 3265, "label": "Quercus garryana Dougl. ex Hook."}, "tribe": {"value": 53, "label": "Cowlitz"}, "source": {"value": 25, "label": "g73"}, "pageno": "27", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Wood used to make combs.", "rawsource": "Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 27"}
{"id": 39497, "species": {"value": 3902, "label": "Taxus brevifolia Nutt."}, "tribe": {"value": 122, "label": "Kwakiutl, Southern"}, "source": {"value": 63, "label": "tb73"}, "pageno": "271", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Wood used to make combs.", "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 271"}
{"id": 38734, "species": {"value": 3792, "label": "Spiraea douglasii Hook."}, "tribe": {"value": 259, "label": "Thompson"}, "source": {"value": 10, "label": "tta90"}, "pageno": "274", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Branches used to make brooms.", "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 274"}
{"id": 4861, "species": {"value": 371, "label": "Aristida purpurea var. longiseta (Steud.) Vasey"}, "tribe": {"value": 95, "label": "Hopi"}, "source": {"value": 82, "label": "c74"}, "pageno": "286", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Plant used for broom material.", "rawsource": "Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians.  Garland: New York., page 286"}
{"id": 26375, "species": {"value": 2875, "label": "Philadelphus lewisii Pursh"}, "tribe": {"value": 53, "label": "Cowlitz"}, "source": {"value": 25, "label": "g73"}, "pageno": "31", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Wood used to make combs.", "rawsource": "Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 31"}
{"id": 26380, "species": {"value": 2875, "label": "Philadelphus lewisii Pursh"}, "tribe": {"value": 129, "label": "Lummi"}, "source": {"value": 25, "label": "g73"}, "pageno": "31", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Wood used to make combs.", "rawsource": "Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 31"}
{"id": 16974, "species": {"value": 1858, "label": "Hesperostipa spartea (Trin.) Barkworth"}, "tribe": {"value": 177, "label": "Omaha"}, "source": {"value": 154, "label": "g13ii"}, "pageno": "324", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Grains bound with sinew and used to make combs or hairbrushes. The grains were firmly bound with sinew, the points being broken or burned off, the grains forming the teeth, the awns bent back, making the attachment for combs or hairbrushes.", "rawsource": "Gilmore, Melvin R., 1913, A Study in the Ethnobotany of the Omaha Indians, Nebraska State Historical Society Collections 17:314-57., page 324"}
{"id": 28617, "species": {"value": 3022, "label": "Pleuraphis jamesii Torr."}, "tribe": {"value": 95, "label": "Hopi"}, "source": {"value": 82, "label": "c74"}, "pageno": "325", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Culms used as a floor and hair brush.", "rawsource": "Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians.  Garland: New York., page 325"}
{"id": 28624, "species": {"value": 3022, "label": "Pleuraphis jamesii Torr."}, "tribe": {"value": 257, "label": "Tewa"}, "source": {"value": 82, "label": "c74"}, "pageno": "325", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Culms used as a floor and hair brush.", "rawsource": "Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians.  Garland: New York., page 325"}
{"id": 7536, "species": {"value": 623, "label": "Brickellia ambigens (Greene.) A. Nels."}, "tribe": {"value": 107, "label": "Keres, Western"}, "source": {"value": 79, "label": "swank32"}, "pageno": "33", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Tied bunches of plants used as rough brooms.", "rawsource": "Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 33"}
{"id": 7556, "species": {"value": 627, "label": "Brickellia grandiflora (Hook.) Nutt."}, "tribe": {"value": 107, "label": "Keres, Western"}, "source": {"value": 79, "label": "swank32"}, "pageno": "33", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Tied bunches of plants used as rough brooms.", "rawsource": "Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 33"}
{"id": 9740, "species": {"value": 922, "label": "Chlorogalum pomeridianum (DC.) Kunth"}, "tribe": {"value": 214, "label": "Round Valley Indian"}, "source": {"value": 89, "label": "c02"}, "pageno": "336", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Outer fibers made into brushes and used to scrape meal off the ground.", "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 336"}
{"id": 7590, "species": {"value": 639, "label": "Bromus marginatus Nees ex Steud."}, "tribe": {"value": 107, "label": "Keres, Western"}, "source": {"value": 79, "label": "swank32"}, "pageno": "34", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Tied bunches of plants used as hair brushes and light brooms.", "rawsource": "Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 34"}
{"id": 8944, "species": {"value": 842, "label": "Cercocarpus montanus Raf."}, "tribe": {"value": 107, "label": "Keres, Western"}, "source": {"value": 79, "label": "swank32"}, "pageno": "35", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Bunches of tied bushes used for rough brooms.", "rawsource": "Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 35"}
{"id": 24017, "species": {"value": 2590, "label": "Nolina microcarpa S. Wats."}, "tribe": {"value": 101, "label": "Isleta"}, "source": {"value": 76, "label": "j31"}, "pageno": "35", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Leaf fibers used to make brushes.", "rawsource": "Jones, Volney H., 1931, The Ethnobotany of the Isleta Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 35"}
{"id": 13658, "species": {"value": 1454, "label": "Ericameria nauseosa ssp. nauseosa var. nauseosa"}, "tribe": {"value": 107, "label": "Keres, Western"}, "source": {"value": 79, "label": "swank32"}, "pageno": "37", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Plant used for rough brooms.", "rawsource": "Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 37"}
{"id": 43997, "species": {"value": 4226, "label": "Yucca baileyi var. navajoa (J.M. Webber) J.M. Webber"}, "tribe": {"value": 95, "label": "Hopi"}, "source": {"value": 82, "label": "c74"}, "pageno": "370", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Plant used for paint brushes.", "rawsource": "Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians.  Garland: New York., page 370"}
{"id": 43998, "species": {"value": 4226, "label": "Yucca baileyi var. navajoa (J.M. Webber) J.M. Webber"}, "tribe": {"value": 95, "label": "Hopi"}, "source": {"value": 82, "label": "c74"}, "pageno": "370", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Twigs used to make snow brooms.", "rawsource": "Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians.  Garland: New York., page 370"}
{"id": 26052, "species": {"value": 2833, "label": "Perideridia kelloggii (Gray) Mathias"}, "tribe": {"value": 137, "label": "Mendocino Indian"}, "source": {"value": 89, "label": "c02"}, "pageno": "372", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Rigid, root fibers made into compact cylindrical brushes and used 'for combs.'", "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 372"}
{"id": 7685, "species": {"value": 667, "label": "Calocedrus decurrens (Torr.) Florin"}, "tribe": {"value": 105, "label": "Karok"}, "source": {"value": 71, "label": "sg52"}, "pageno": "379", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Boughs and twigs used to make brooms.", "rawsource": "Schenck, Sara M. and E. W. Gifford, 1952, Karok Ethnobotany, Anthropological Records 13(6):377-392, page 379"}
{"id": 9067, "species": {"value": 859, "label": "Chamaecyparis lawsoniana (A. Murr.) Parl."}, "tribe": {"value": 105, "label": "Karok"}, "source": {"value": 71, "label": "sg52"}, "pageno": "379", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Branches used to make brooms.", "rawsource": "Schenck, Sara M. and E. W. Gifford, 1952, Karok Ethnobotany, Anthropological Records 13(6):377-392, page 379"}
{"id": 9710, "species": {"value": 922, "label": "Chlorogalum pomeridianum (DC.) Kunth"}, "tribe": {"value": 105, "label": "Karok"}, "source": {"value": 71, "label": "sg52"}, "pageno": "380", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Bulb fibers used to make a small brush.", "rawsource": "Schenck, Sara M. and E. W. Gifford, 1952, Karok Ethnobotany, Anthropological Records 13(6):377-392, page 380"}
{"id": 42318, "species": {"value": 4085, "label": "Vaccinium parvifolium Sm."}, "tribe": {"value": 105, "label": "Karok"}, "source": {"value": 71, "label": "sg52"}, "pageno": "388", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Stems and twigs used to make brooms.", "rawsource": "Schenck, Sara M. and E. W. Gifford, 1952, Karok Ethnobotany, Anthropological Records 13(6):377-392, page 388"}
{"id": 39122, "species": {"value": 3850, "label": "Symphoricarpos albus var. albus"}, "tribe": {"value": 285, "label": "Yokia"}, "source": {"value": 89, "label": "c02"}, "pageno": "389", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Slender twigs bound together and used as brooms for sweeping.", "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 389"}
{"id": 38800, "species": {"value": 3810, "label": "Sporobolus wrightii Munro ex Scribn."}, "tribe": {"value": 11, "label": "Apache, Chiricahua & Mescalero"}, "source": {"value": 95, "label": "co36"}, "pageno": "40", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Stiff stems made into a brush and used to clean spines of cacti.", "rawsource": "Castetter, Edward F. and M. E. Opler, 1936, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest III. The Ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(5):1-63, page 40"}
{"id": 11224, "species": {"value": 1110, "label": "Corylus americana Walt."}, "tribe": {"value": 173, "label": "Ojibwa"}, "source": {"value": 20, "label": "smith32"}, "pageno": "417", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Finer twigs bound into a bundle, with the tips sheared, to serve as a broom or brush.", "rawsource": "Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 417"}
{"id": 13714, "species": {"value": 1463, "label": "Erigeron asper Nutt."}, "tribe": {"value": 107, "label": "Keres, Western"}, "source": {"value": 79, "label": "swank32"}, "pageno": "42", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Tied bunches of plants used for brooms.", "rawsource": "Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 42"}
{"id": 13744, "species": {"value": 1473, "label": "Erigeron flagellaris Gray"}, "tribe": {"value": 107, "label": "Keres, Western"}, "source": {"value": 79, "label": "swank32"}, "pageno": "42", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Tied bunches of plants used for brooms.", "rawsource": "Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 42"}
{"id": 14702, "species": {"value": 1604, "label": "Fallugia paradoxa (D. Don) Endl. ex Torr."}, "tribe": {"value": 107, "label": "Keres, Western"}, "source": {"value": 79, "label": "swank32"}, "pageno": "44", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Brush used for rough brooms, especially in Acoma.", "rawsource": "Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 44"}
{"id": 43840, "species": {"value": 4225, "label": "Yucca baccata Torr."}, "tribe": {"value": 101, "label": "Isleta"}, "source": {"value": 76, "label": "j31"}, "pageno": "45", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Fibers used to make small brushes for pottery decoration.", "rawsource": "Jones, Volney H., 1931, The Ethnobotany of the Isleta Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 45"}
{"id": 44098, "species": {"value": 4230, "label": "Yucca glauca Nutt."}, "tribe": {"value": 101, "label": "Isleta"}, "source": {"value": 76, "label": "j31"}, "pageno": "45", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Fibers used to make brushes for pottery decoration.", "rawsource": "Jones, Volney H., 1931, The Ethnobotany of the Isleta Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 45"}
{"id": 14710, "species": {"value": 1604, "label": "Fallugia paradoxa (D. Don) Endl. ex Torr."}, "tribe": {"value": 257, "label": "Tewa"}, "source": {"value": 61, "label": "rhf16"}, "pageno": "46", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Slender branches bound together and used as brooms for rough outdoor sweeping.", "rawsource": "Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 46"}
{"id": 17563, "species": {"value": 1941, "label": "Hymenoclea sp."}, "tribe": {"value": 97, "label": "Hualapai"}, "source": {"value": 127, "label": "w82"}, "pageno": "47", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Used to make brushes and brooms.", "rawsource": "Watahomigie, Lucille J., 1982, Hualapai Ethnobotany, Peach Springs, AZ. Hualapai Bilingual Program, Peach Springs School District #8, page 47"}
{"id": 5680, "species": {"value": 407, "label": "Artemisia tridentata Nutt."}, "tribe": {"value": 159, "label": "Navajo, Ramah"}, "source": {"value": 18, "label": "v52"}, "pageno": "48", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Leafy stems tied together with wire and used for brooms.", "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 48"}
{"id": 44175, "species": {"value": 4230, "label": "Yucca glauca Nutt."}, "tribe": {"value": 248, "label": "Southwest Indians"}, "source": {"value": 58, "label": "bc41"}, "pageno": "49", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Leaves used as brushes to place designs upon pottery.", "rawsource": "Bell, Willis H and Edward F. Castetter, 1941, Ethnobiological Studies in the Southwest VII.  The Utilization of of Yucca, Sotol and Beargrass by the Aborigines in the American Southwest, University of New Mexico Bulletin 5(5):1-74, page 49"}
{"id": 26412, "species": {"value": 2875, "label": "Philadelphus lewisii Pursh"}, "tribe": {"value": 259, "label": "Thompson"}, "source": {"value": 33, "label": "steed28"}, "pageno": "499", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Wood used to make combs.", "rawsource": "Steedman, E.V., 1928, The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522, page 499"}
{"id": 1784, "species": {"value": 92, "label": "Agave lechuguilla Torr."}, "tribe": {"value": 193, "label": "Pima"}, "source": {"value": 58, "label": "bc41"}, "pageno": "50", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Fiber used to make hair brushes.", "rawsource": "Bell, Willis H and Edward F. Castetter, 1941, Ethnobiological Studies in the Southwest VII.  The Utilization of of Yucca, Sotol and Beargrass by the Aborigines in the American Southwest, University of New Mexico Bulletin 5(5):1-74, page 50"}
{"id": 43761, "species": {"value": 4224, "label": "Yucca angustissima Engelm. ex Trel."}, "tribe": {"value": 95, "label": "Hopi"}, "source": {"value": 58, "label": "bc41"}, "pageno": "50", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Leaf splints used as brushes to apply color to pottery.", "rawsource": "Bell, Willis H and Edward F. Castetter, 1941, Ethnobiological Studies in the Southwest VII.  The Utilization of of Yucca, Sotol and Beargrass by the Aborigines in the American Southwest, University of New Mexico Bulletin 5(5):1-74, page 50"}
{"id": 43921, "species": {"value": 4225, "label": "Yucca baccata Torr."}, "tribe": {"value": 193, "label": "Pima"}, "source": {"value": 58, "label": "bc41"}, "pageno": "50", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Fiber used to make hair brushes.", "rawsource": "Bell, Willis H and Edward F. Castetter, 1941, Ethnobiological Studies in the Southwest VII.  The Utilization of of Yucca, Sotol and Beargrass by the Aborigines in the American Southwest, University of New Mexico Bulletin 5(5):1-74, page 50"}
{"id": 44095, "species": {"value": 4230, "label": "Yucca glauca Nutt."}, "tribe": {"value": 95, "label": "Hopi"}, "source": {"value": 58, "label": "bc41"}, "pageno": "50", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Leaf splints used as brushes to apply color to pottery.", "rawsource": "Bell, Willis H and Edward F. Castetter, 1941, Ethnobiological Studies in the Southwest VII.  The Utilization of of Yucca, Sotol and Beargrass by the Aborigines in the American Southwest, University of New Mexico Bulletin 5(5):1-74, page 50"}
{"id": 37750, "species": {"value": 3655, "label": "Serenoa repens (Bartr.) Small"}, "tribe": {"value": 228, "label": "Seminole"}, "source": {"value": 88, "label": "s54"}, "pageno": "504", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Plant used to make brushes.", "rawsource": "Sturtevant, William, 1954, The Mikasuki Seminole:  Medical Beliefs and Practices, Yale University, PhD Thesis, page 504"}
{"id": 1734, "species": {"value": 89, "label": "Agave americana L."}, "tribe": {"value": 188, "label": "Papago"}, "source": {"value": 27, "label": "cu35"}, "pageno": "51", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Bundles of fibers used as combination brushes and combs for hair.", "rawsource": "Castetter, Edward F. and Ruth M. Underhill, 1935, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest II. The Ethnobiology of the Papago Indians, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(3):1-84, page 51"}
{"id": 20095, "species": {"value": 2161, "label": "Leymus condensatus (J. Presl) A. L\u201dve"}, "tribe": {"value": 183, "label": "Paiute"}, "source": {"value": 98, "label": "m53"}, "pageno": "51", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Roots tied together and used as hair combs.", "rawsource": "Mahar, James Michael., 1953, Ethnobotany of the Oregon Paiutes of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Reed College, B.A. Thesis, page 51"}
{"id": 44186, "species": {"value": 4230, "label": "Yucca glauca Nutt."}, "tribe": {"value": 257, "label": "Tewa"}, "source": {"value": 61, "label": "rhf16"}, "pageno": "52", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Narrow slips used as paint brushes in decorating pottery.", "rawsource": "Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 52"}
{"id": 16276, "species": {"value": 1786, "label": "Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt. & Rusby"}, "tribe": {"value": 48, "label": "Comanche"}, "source": {"value": 147, "label": "cj40"}, "pageno": "522", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Stems used to make brooms.", "rawsource": "Carlson, Gustav G. and Volney H. Jones, 1940, Some Notes on Uses of Plants by the Comanche Indians, Papers of the Michigan Academy of  Science, Arts and Letters 25:517-542, page 522"}
{"id": 9699, "species": {"value": 922, "label": "Chlorogalum pomeridianum (DC.) Kunth"}, "tribe": {"value": 24, "label": "Cahuilla"}, "source": {"value": 31, "label": "bs72"}, "pageno": "54", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Coarse husk fibers from the bulb tied together and used as a cleaning brush.", "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 54"}
{"id": 9700, "species": {"value": 922, "label": "Chlorogalum pomeridianum (DC.) Kunth"}, "tribe": {"value": 24, "label": "Cahuilla"}, "source": {"value": 31, "label": "bs72"}, "pageno": "54", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Coarse husk fibers from the bulb tied together and used as a hair brush.", "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 54"}
{"id": 14704, "species": {"value": 1604, "label": "Fallugia paradoxa (D. Don) Endl. ex Torr."}, "tribe": {"value": 108, "label": "Keresan"}, "source": {"value": 90, "label": "w45"}, "pageno": "558", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Used to make arrows and brooms.", "rawsource": "White, Leslie A, 1945, Notes on the Ethnobotany of the Keres, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters 30:557-568, page 558"}
{"id": 11987, "species": {"value": 1217, "label": "Dalea candida var. oligophylla (Torr.) Shinners"}, "tribe": {"value": 107, "label": "Keres, Western"}, "source": {"value": 79, "label": "swank32"}, "pageno": "58", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Plant used for light brooms.", "rawsource": "Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 58"}
{"id": 7333, "species": {"value": 585, "label": "Betula sp."}, "tribe": {"value": 134, "label": "Malecite"}, "source": {"value": 78, "label": "sd52"}, "pageno": "6", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Used to make brooms.", "rawsource": "Speck, Frank G. and R.W. Dexter, 1952, Utilization of Animals and Plants by the Malecite Indians of New Brunswick, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 42:1-7, page 6"}
{"id": 37546, "species": {"value": 3614, "label": "Scirpus sp."}, "tribe": {"value": 96, "label": "Houma"}, "source": {"value": 49, "label": "speck41"}, "pageno": "60", "use_category": {"value": 4, "label": "Fiber"}, "use_subcategory": {"value": 93, "label": "Brushes & Brooms"}, "notes": "Plants dried and used to make brooms.", "rawsource": "Speck, Frank G., 1941, A List of Plant Curatives Obtained From the Houma Indians of Louisiana, Primitive Man 14:49-75, page 60"}