uses: 34258
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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34258 | 3434 | 259 | 10 | 267 | 3 | 58 | Branches placed around the body and house of a dead person to protect other people from its spirit. After a death, an orphan, widower or widow placed rose branches under the mattress to protect against sickness and to 'keep ghosts away.' Widows and widowers could fish only if rose branches were first swept around their gill nets. | Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, page 267 |