uses: 3488
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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3488 | 261 | 23 | 26 | 40 | 3 | 30 | Root held in the mouth during Horn Society curse ceremony. Curses were indulged in by the Horn Society as a whole. In this case a special sweat lodge was constructed. A human figure representing the condemned man was drawn in the bottom of a pit intended to contain hot stones. The stones were brought in at a designated time and placed on the drawing to represent the victim's suffering. | Hellson, John C., 1974, Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 40 |