uses: 16974
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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16974 | 1858 | 177 | 154 | 324 | 4 | 93 | 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. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1913, A Study in the Ethnobotany of the Omaha Indians, Nebraska State Historical Society Collections 17:314-57., page 324 |