uses: 43572
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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43572 | 4195 | 289 | 70 | 63 | 4 | Leaves used to obtain fiber. Fibers were harvested when leaves were fully grown and then dyed with alder bark. The strands could be dyed by chewing in Alnus bark and running the fibers through the mouth or by pounding the bark in a mortar and pestle. | Baker, Marc A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Yurok, Tolowa and Karok Indians of Northwest California, Humboldt State University, M.A. Thesis, page 63 |