uses: 44037
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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44037 | 4228 | 157 | 74 | 33 | 3 | 30 | Leaves made into scourges and used in the Night Chant. A leaf was taken from the east side of the plant and one from the west. The leaves were then split in two and the interchanged halves bound together to form the scourge. These scourges were carried by the different personators in the Night Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 33 |