uses: 3872
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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3872 | 297 | 259 | 10 | 159 | 3 | 28 | Plants made into rope or thread and used for sewing and to make fishnets. The plants were dried, beaten with a stick to soften and loosen the fiber and then rolled and twisted on a piece of buckskin covering the upper leg. The resulting rope or thread was used for sewing, for rope and for fish 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 159 |