uses: 23697
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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23697 | 2576 | 92 | 41 | 25 | 4 | 99 | Long stipes used to make fishing lines and anchor ropes. Long stipes were dried, then soaked in dogfish or whale oil so they would not lose their flexibility. Kelp ropes were very strong and could be plaited or spliced together to make them longer. | Turner, Nancy J. and Barbara S. Efrat, 1982, Ethnobotany of the Hesquiat Indians of Vancouver Island, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 25 |