uses: 23543
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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23543 | 2543 | 291 | 6 | 91 | 3 | 30 | Grass attached to sticks of plume offerings to anthropic gods. This grass was used only by Galaxy and Shu'maakwe fraternities. The sticks designated the god to whom the offerings were made and the plumes of the eagle and of other birds conveyed the breath prayers to the gods. | Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 91 |