uses: 34058
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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34058 | 3427 | 175 | 32 | 131 | 3 | 30 | Branches used by an Indian doctor to sweep out the grave before the corpse was lowered into it. The grave was swept prevent someone else's spirit from being buried with the dead person. | Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 131 |