uses: 40016
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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40016 | 3951 | 92 | 41 | 35 | 4 | 124 | Finely beaten bark used as a sponge. Young boys, when they were starting to walk, were rubbed with this bark dipped in cold octopus broth to make them tough. Girls were told to rub the same liquid on their hands to make them strong. | Turner, Nancy J. and Barbara S. Efrat, 1982, Ethnobotany of the Hesquiat Indians of Vancouver Island, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 35 |