uses: 21749
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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21749 | 2355 | 257 | 61 | 68 | 3 | 28 | Wood used to make bows. This plant grew outside Tewa country. It was considered to be better for making bows than any native wood. It was brought from the east by the Tewa, or obtained from the Comanche or other Eastern tribes. | Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 68 |