uses: 43733
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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43733 | 4217 | 289 | 70 | 63 | 4 | 73 | Small leaves used to make dresses. Plants were burned every year. Leaves were harvested in the spring when they first began to grow out from their charred rhizome. Prior to use, the leaves were soaked in water to make them pliable, but if left too long they turned green. | Baker, Marc A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Yurok, Tolowa and Karok Indians of Northwest California, Humboldt State University, M.A. Thesis, page 63 |