uses: 3865
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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3865 | 297 | 259 | 10 | 159 | 4 | 99 | Stems used to make string. The stems were cut in the fall, usually in October, soaked and sometimes split in half. The fibrous outer skin was peeled off and the brittle inner stem discarded. The fibrous part was then dried for indefinite storage and used to make string. | 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 159 |