uses: 31849
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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31849 | 3251 | 128 | 24 | 194 | 1 | 75 | Acorns from storage granaries pounded in a mortar and pestle to make a flour. Several methods were used to remove the bitterness from the acorn meal. The meal was either leached with hot water, placed in a rush basket and warm water poured over it or placed in a sand hole and warm water poured over it to soak away the bitterness. | Sparkman, Philip S., 1908, The Culture of the Luiseno Indians, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234, page 194 |