uses: 25629
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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25629 | 2767 | 291 | 6 | 83 | 3 | 30 | Chewed blossoms used as perfume before a dance in ceremonies of the secret fraternities. The blossoms were chewed by both sexes, especially by women, ejected into the hands and rubbed on the neck, limbs and clothing as perfume. | Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 83 |