uses: 3489
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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3489 | 261 | 23 | 26 | 40 | 3 | 30 | Root pieces attached to the binding of the Spear Staff (with bundle), the head staff. The Spear Staff was used during the secret ceremony of the Horns, in which the chief ceremonialist participated in a fertility rite with the initiate's wife. | Hellson, John C., 1974, Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 40 |