uses: 4929
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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4929 | 379 | 175 | 32 | 75 | 2 | 133 | Roots used as a love medicine. Roots were mixed with a robin's heart and tongue and with ochre paint. The mixture was dried and powdered. The user went into the water and faced east, recited certain words, mentioned the name of the person he desired and marked his face with the powdered arnica mixture. | Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 75 |