uses: 44090
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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44090 | 4230 | 61 | 91 | 358 | 3 | 37 | Leaves bound in a slender bundle and used as a substitute for wood. The slender bundle of leaves formed the firedrill which was placed in a hearth and twirled by the hands until it smouldered upon which time it was blown upon to ignite the flame. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1913, Some Native Nebraska Plants With Their Uses by the Dakota, Collections of the Nebraska State Historical Society 17:358-70, page 358 |