uses: 16093
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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16093 | 1763 | 259 | 10 | 136 | 2 | 22 | Leaves chewed prenatally to determine the sex of a baby and to insure an easy delivery. If the mother could swallow the chewed leaf, the baby was going to be a girl, but if she could not, then it was going to be a boy. | 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 136 |