uses: 7273
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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7273 | 580 | 255 | 36 | 5 | 2 | 39 | Bark used as casts for broken limbs. A soft material such as a cloth was placed next to the skin on the broken limb over which birchbark was wrapped and tied. The birchbark was then heated until it shrank to fit the limb. | Kari, Priscilla Russe, 1985, Upper Tanana Ethnobotany, Anchorage. Alaska Historical Commission, page 5 |