uses: 4985
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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4985 | 387 | 128 | 24 | 199 | 3 | 30 | Plant and white sage used to build a ceremonial hunting fire before hunting. The hunters stood around the fire and in its smoke before hunting because they believed that the fire and smoke would absolve them of any breach of social observances they might have committed which would otherwise have brought them bad luck. | Sparkman, Philip S., 1908, The Culture of the Luiseno Indians, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234, page 199 |