uses: 6494
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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6494 | 473 | 177 | 17 | 91 | 3 | 30 | Fruits gathered just before corn planting time and ceremonially soaked with seed corn. The fruits were not planted with the seed corn, but were discarded before planting. The informants could not give a reason for this process as they said they had forgotten the origin of the old custom. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 91 |