uses: 43907
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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43907 | 4225 | 159 | 18 | 21 | 3 | 106 | Root made into soap used for washing wool or clothing, shampooing the hair and bathing the body. The root, pounded with rocks to remove the bark and to soften it, was stirred vigorously in warm water to whip up suds. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 21 |