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id ▼ | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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24351 | Olneya tesota Gray 2633 | Cahuilla 24 | bs72 31 | 94 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make implements requiring extreme hardness: throwing sticks and clubs. | Bean, Lowell John and Katherine Siva Saubel, 1972, Temalpakh (From the Earth); Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants, Banning, CA. Malki Museum Press, page 94 |
24361 | Olneya tesota Gray 2633 | Papago 188 | cu35 27 | 31 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Four foot sticks with sharp points used as digging sticks. | Castetter, Edward F. and Ruth M. Underhill, 1935, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest II. The Ethnobiology of the Papago Indians, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(3):1-84, page 31 |
24362 | Olneya tesota Gray 2633 | Papago 188 | cu35 27 | 60 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wooden stakes driven into the ground and used for weaving cotton. | Castetter, Edward F. and Ruth M. Underhill, 1935, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest II. The Ethnobiology of the Papago Indians, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(3):1-84, page 60 |
24368 | Olneya tesota Gray 2633 | Pima 193 | c49 11 | 93 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Formerly used to make shovels. | Curtin, L. S. M., 1949, By the Prophet of the Earth, Sante Fe. San Vicente Foundation, page 93 |
24369 | Olneya tesota Gray 2633 | Pima 193 | c49 11 | 93 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make tool handles. | Curtin, L. S. M., 1949, By the Prophet of the Earth, Sante Fe. San Vicente Foundation, page 93 |
24616 | Opuntia engelmannii Salm-Dyck 2653 | Keres, Western 107 | swank32 79 | 56 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Thorns used for needles. | Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 56 |
24700 | Opuntia imbricata var. imbricata 2662 | Keres, Western 107 | swank32 79 | 55 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Thorns used as sewing needles and for tattooing. | Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 55 |
24723 | Opuntia phaeacantha Engelm. 2665 | Havasupai 89 | ws85 2 | 233 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Spines used to prick the design into the skin for tattooing. | Weber, Steven A. and P. David Seaman, 1985, Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture, Tucson. The University of Arizona Press, page 233 |
25129 | Ostrya virginiana (P. Mill.) K. Koch 2705 | Malecite 134 | sd52 78 | 6 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Used to make utensil handles. | Speck, Frank G. and R.W. Dexter, 1952, Utilization of Animals and Plants by the Malecite Indians of New Brunswick, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 42:1-7, page 6 |
25278 | Pachycereus pringlei (S. Wats.) Britt. & Rose 2724 | Seri 229 | d44 29 | 136 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Dried plant skeletons used as a straight, slender pole for knocking off ripe fruit. | Dawson, E. Yale, 1944, Some Ethnobotanical Notes on the Seri Indians, Desert Plant Life 9:133-138, page 136 |
26374 | Philadelphus lewisii Pursh 2875 | Coeur d'Alene 47 | teit28 144 | 91 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make root diggers. | Teit, James A., 1928, The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus, SI-BAE Annual Report #45, page 91 |
26381 | Philadelphus lewisii Pursh 2875 | Lummi 129 | g73 25 | 31 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used for netting shuttles and knitting needles. | Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 31 |
26393 | Philadelphus lewisii Pursh 2875 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 108 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make digging sticks. | 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 108 |
26395 | Philadelphus lewisii Pursh 2875 | Paiute 183 | m53 98 | 77 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Sticks used as digging sticks, one of the principal tools. | Mahar, James Michael., 1953, Ethnobotany of the Oregon Paiutes of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Reed College, B.A. Thesis, page 77 |
26414 | Philadelphus lewisii Pursh 2875 | Thompson 259 | tta90 10 | 230 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Hard wood used for making knitting needles. | Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, page 230 |
26590 | Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. 2901 | Kawaiisu 106 | z81 60 | 49 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Stem split and the sharp edge used at birth to cut the navel cord. | Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 49 |
26591 | Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. 2901 | Kawaiisu 106 | z81 60 | 49 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Straight, rigid, hollow, bamboolike stems used in the making of fire drills. | Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 49 |
26619 | Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. 2901 | Seminole 228 | s54 88 | 495 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Plant used to make medicine blowing tubes. | Sturtevant, William, 1954, The Mikasuki Seminole: Medical Beliefs and Practices, Yale University, PhD Thesis, page 495 |
26620 | Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. 2901 | Seminole 228 | s54 88 | 172 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Stems used to make medicine tubes. | Sturtevant, William, 1954, The Mikasuki Seminole: Medical Beliefs and Practices, Yale University, PhD Thesis, page 172 |
26915 | Picea glauca (Moench) Voss 2934 | Cree, Woodlands 58 | l85 47 | 48 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Dead, standing trees used to make a moose hide stretcher. | Leighton, Anna L., 1985, Wild Plant Use by the Woods Cree (Nihithawak) of East-Central Saskatchewan, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 48 |
27039 | Picea glauca (Moench) Voss 2934 | Tanana, Upper 255 | k85 36 | 2 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make boats, boat paddles, shovels, skin stretchers and wedges for chopping wood. | Kari, Priscilla Russe, 1985, Upper Tanana Ethnobotany, Anchorage. Alaska Historical Commission, page 2 |
27107 | Picea mariana (P. Mill.) B.S.P. 2935 | Koyukon 118 | n83 158 | 49 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make drying racks. | Nelson, Richard K., 1983, Make Prayers to the Raven--A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest, Chicago. The University of Chicago Press, page 49 |
27184 | Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr. 2938 | Haisla and Hanaksiala 87 | c93 14 | 175 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make a bark peeling tool. | Compton, Brian Douglas, 1993, Upper North Wakashan and Southern Tsimshian Ethnobotany: The Knowledge and Usage of Plants..., Ph.D. Dissertation, University of British Columbia, page 175 |
27185 | Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr. 2938 | Haisla and Hanaksiala 87 | c93 14 | 175 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make digging sticks. | Compton, Brian Douglas, 1993, Upper North Wakashan and Southern Tsimshian Ethnobotany: The Knowledge and Usage of Plants..., Ph.D. Dissertation, University of British Columbia, page 175 |
27287 | Picea sp. 2939 | Eskimo, Alaska 67 | aa80 152 | 34 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Logs and poles used for making kayak parts, tool handles and other utilitarian objects. | Ager, Thomas A. and Lynn Price Ager, 1980, Ethnobotany of The Eskimos of Nelson Island, Alaska, Arctic Anthropology 27:26-48, page 34 |
27301 | Picea sp. 2939 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 21 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Twigs used as beaters to make a high, stiff, lasting lather of yucca roots and water. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 21 |
27432 | Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud. 2953 | Kwakiutl, Southern 122 | tb73 63 | 296 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make cedar bark peelers, digging sticks and board bending tools. | Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1973, The Ethnobotany of the Southern Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, Economic Botany 27:257-310, page 296 |
27488 | Pinus contorta var. contorta 2954 | Haisla 86 | c93 14 | 178 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make maul heads. | Compton, Brian Douglas, 1993, Upper North Wakashan and Southern Tsimshian Ethnobotany: The Knowledge and Usage of Plants..., Ph.D. Dissertation, University of British Columbia, page 178 |
27491 | Pinus contorta var. contorta 2954 | Haisla and Hanaksiala 87 | c93 14 | 178 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Smoldering twigs used to singe and trim hair. | Compton, Brian Douglas, 1993, Upper North Wakashan and Southern Tsimshian Ethnobotany: The Knowledge and Usage of Plants..., Ph.D. Dissertation, University of British Columbia, page 178 |
27495 | Pinus contorta var. contorta 2954 | Kwakwaka'wakw 123 | c93 14 | 70 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make implements. | Compton, Brian Douglas, 1993, Upper North Wakashan and Southern Tsimshian Ethnobotany: The Knowledge and Usage of Plants..., Ph.D. Dissertation, University of British Columbia, page 70 |
27558 | Pinus edulis Engelm. 2959 | Havasupai 89 | ws85 2 | 205 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make the knife for trimming mescal heads. | Weber, Steven A. and P. David Seaman, 1985, Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture, Tucson. The University of Arizona Press, page 205 |
27638 | Pinus edulis Engelm. 2959 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 21 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make loom poles, beams and uprights used in the construction of looms. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 21 |
27669 | Pinus edulis Engelm. 2959 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 12 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make sharp sticks for perforating buckskin and various other tools. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 12 |
27816 | Pinus monophylla Torr. & Fr‚m. 2965 | Havasupai 89 | ws85 2 | 205 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make the knife for trimming mescal heads. | Weber, Steven A. and P. David Seaman, 1985, Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture, Tucson. The University of Arizona Press, page 205 |
27931 | Pinus ponderosa P.& C. Lawson 2968 | Blackfoot 23 | j87 146 | 18 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Twigs used as twirling sticks in fire making. | Johnston, Alex, 1987, Plants and the Blackfoot, Lethbridge, Alberta. Lethbridge Historical Society, page 18 |
27955 | Pinus ponderosa P.& C. Lawson 2968 | Hopi 95 | w39 37 | 63 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Used to make ladders. | Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 63 |
27981 | Pinus ponderosa P.& C. Lawson 2968 | Montana Indian 151 | b05 73 | 18 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Twigs used for twirling sticks in fire production. | Blankinship, J. W., 1905, Native Economic Plants of Montana, Bozeman. Montana Agricultural College Experimental Station, Bulletin 56, page 18 |
28075 | Pinus ponderosa var. scopulorum Engelm. 2970 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 348 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make kiva ladders. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 348 |
28326 | Pipturus sp. 2986 | Hawaiian 90 | a22 68 | 71 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood made into clubs and used to beat the tapa. | Akana, Akaiko, 1922, Hawaiian Herbs of Medicinal Value, Honolulu: Pacific Book House, page 71 |
28638 | Pluchea sericea (Nutt.) Coville 3025 | Havasupai 89 | ws85 2 | 249 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Sticks used to peg a hide to the ground while stretching it during tanning. | Weber, Steven A. and P. David Seaman, 1985, Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture, Tucson. The University of Arizona Press, page 249 |
28647 | Pluchea sericea (Nutt.) Coville 3025 | Papago 188 | cu35 27 | 59 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Used as a spindle for spinning cotton. | Castetter, Edward F. and Ruth M. Underhill, 1935, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest II. The Ethnobiology of the Papago Indians, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(3):1-84, page 59 |
29320 | Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray ex Hook.) Brayshaw 3097 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 134 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Thin board of wood placed at the top of a cradle to flatten a child's head. | 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 134 |
29351 | Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray ex Hook.) Brayshaw 3097 | Thompson 259 | tta90 10 | 276 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Dried root used as a drill in making friction fires. | Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, page 276 |
29353 | Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray ex Hook.) Brayshaw 3097 | Yurok 289 | b81 70 | 47 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Pitch used to apply soot in the tattooing process. | Baker, Marc A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Yurok, Tolowa and Karok Indians of Northwest California, Humboldt State University, M.A. Thesis, page 47 |
29458 | Populus deltoides ssp. wislizeni (S. Wats.) Eckenwalder 3101 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 38 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Used to make wooden tubes for the bellows used in silversmithing. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 38 |
29552 | Populus sp. 3105 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 346 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make fire spindle and sometimes the hearth. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 346 |
29562 | Populus sp. 3105 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 37 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make the frame of the loom. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 37 |
29645 | Populus tremuloides Michx. 3106 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 134 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Logs used to scrape deer hides. | 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 134 |
29687 | Populus ?acuminata Rydb. (pro sp.) [angustifolia ? deltoides] 3090 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 22 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Used to make fire drills. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 22 |
29889 | Proboscidea althaeifolia (Benth.) Dcne. 3142 | Cahuilla 24 | bs72 31 | 107 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Hooked thorns used as a tool in mending baskets and broken pottery. | Bean, Lowell John and Katherine Siva Saubel, 1972, Temalpakh (From the Earth); Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants, Banning, CA. Malki Museum Press, page 107 |
30030 | Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana (L. Benson) M.C. Johnston 3155 | Cahuilla 24 | bs72 31 | 107 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Thorns used to puncture the skin for tattooing. | Bean, Lowell John and Katherine Siva Saubel, 1972, Temalpakh (From the Earth); Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants, Banning, CA. Malki Museum Press, page 107 |
30038 | Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana (L. Benson) M.C. Johnston 3155 | Diegueno 65 | hedges86 85 | 32 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make knives for cutting yucca stalks, pottery paddles & tools for digging pottery clay. | Hedges, Ken, 1986, Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany, San Diego Museum of Man Ethnic Technology Notes, No. 20, page 32 |
30066 | Prosopis pubescens Benth. 3156 | Cahuilla 24 | bs72 31 | 118 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Long branch made into a mescal cutter to sever agave leaves. | Bean, Lowell John and Katherine Siva Saubel, 1972, Temalpakh (From the Earth); Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants, Banning, CA. Malki Museum Press, page 118 |
30118 | Prosopis velutina Woot. 3158 | Papago 188 | cu35 27 | 32 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Two foot long, sword shaped slabs sharpened and used as weed hoes. | Castetter, Edward F. and Ruth M. Underhill, 1935, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest II. The Ethnobiology of the Papago Indians, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(3):1-84, page 32 |
30403 | Prunus emarginata (Dougl. ex Hook.) D. Dietr. 3166 | Salish, Coast 217 | tb71 23 | 87 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used for the drill to make friction fires. | Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1971, The Ethnobotany of the Coast Salish Indians of Vancouver Island, I and II, Economic Botany 25(1):63-104, 335-339, page 87 |
30429 | Prunus fasciculata (Torr.) Gray 3167 | Kawaiisu 106 | z81 60 | 55 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Used as a drill in fire making. | Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 55 |
30529 | Prunus persica (L.) Batsch 3173 | Hopi 95 | w39 37 | 79 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make weaving batons. | Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 79 |
30724 | Prunus virginiana L. 3181 | Blackfoot 23 | h74 26 | 104 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Sticks used to dig roots. | Hellson, John C., 1974, Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 104 |
30903 | Prunus virginiana var. demissa (Nutt.) Torr. 3182 | Kawaiisu 106 | z81 60 | 54 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Straight stems used to make gun cleaners. | Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 54 |
30968 | Prunus virginiana var. demissa (Nutt.) Torr. 3182 | Thompson 259 | steed28 33 | 500 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make handles for root diggers. | Steedman, E.V., 1928, The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522, page 500 |
31278 | Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii 3201 | Karok 105 | sg52 71 | 379 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make the hook for climbing sugar pine trees. | Schenck, Sara M. and E. W. Gifford, 1952, Karok Ethnobotany, Anthropological Records 13(6):377-392, page 379 |
31917 | Quercus alba L. 3253 | Ojibwa 173 | smith32 20 | 418 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood was of much value, especially for making awls to punch holes in birch bark. | Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 418 |
32070 | Quercus gambelii Nutt. 3263 | Havasupai 89 | ws85 2 | 215 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make handles for implements, such as hoes and axes. | Weber, Steven A. and P. David Seaman, 1985, Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture, Tucson. The University of Arizona Press, page 215 |
32077 | Quercus gambelii Nutt. 3263 | Isleta 101 | j31 76 | 41 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make handles and other wooden portions of various implements. | Jones, Volney H., 1931, The Ethnobotany of the Isleta Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 41 |
32092 | Quercus gambelii Nutt. 3263 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 22 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood sticks notched by sheepherders to keep track of the days they have worked. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 22 |
32093 | Quercus gambelii Nutt. 3263 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 22 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make axe handles, hoe handles, digging sticks and weaving tools. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 22 |
32118 | Quercus gambelii var. gambelii 3264 | Tewa 257 | rhf16 61 | 44 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Woods used to make digging sticks. | Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 44 |
32121 | Quercus gambelii var. gambelii 3264 | Tewa of Hano 258 | rhf16 61 | 44 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make rabbit sticks and other utensils. | Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 44 |
32127 | Quercus garryana Dougl. ex Hook. 3265 | Cowlitz 53 | g73 25 | 27 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make digging sticks. | Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 27 |
32211 | Quercus kelloggii Newberry 3270 | Mewuk 140 | m66 109 | 328 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Shoots split into strands and used for twining the rods of baskets and scoops. | Merriam, C. Hart, 1966, Ethnographic Notes on California Indian Tribes, University of California Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley, page 328 |
32340 | Quercus pungens Liebm. 3284 | Keres, Western 107 | swank32 79 | 64 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Twigs used to tie warp of rugs to beam while weaving. | Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 64 |
32341 | Quercus pungens Liebm. 3284 | Keres, Western 107 | swank32 79 | 64 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used for tool handles. | Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 64 |
32346 | Quercus pungens Liebm. 3284 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 41 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make batten for weaving. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 41 |
32413 | Quercus sp. 3289 | Apache, Chiricahua & Mescalero 11 | co36 95 | 35 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Branches used to dig out crowns of the mescal plants. | Castetter, Edward F. and M. E. Opler, 1936, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest III. The Ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(5):1-63, page 35 |
32420 | Quercus sp. 3289 | Apache, Mescalero 12 | b74 52 | 41 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Used to make digging sticks and wooden tweezers. | Basehart, Harry W., 1974, Apache Indians XII. Mescalero Apache Subsistence Patterns and Socio-Political Organization, New York. Garland Publishing Inc., page 41 |
32429 | Quercus sp. 3289 | Chippewa 38 | d28 4 | 378 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Used for awls. | Densmore, Frances, 1928, Uses of Plants by the Chippewa Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #44:273-379, page 378 |
32467 | Quercus sp. 3289 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 40 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Concave hole in wood used as a die to make metallic hemispheres for beads and sunflower blossoms. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 40 |
32468 | Quercus sp. 3289 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 40 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Used to make batten stick for weaving. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 40 |
32469 | Quercus sp. 3289 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 40 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Used to make hoes and digging sticks. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 40 |
32522 | Quercus turbinella Greene 3292 | Havasupai 89 | ws85 2 | 215 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make the hoe and axe handles. | Weber, Steven A. and P. David Seaman, 1985, Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture, Tucson. The University of Arizona Press, page 215 |
32583 | Quercus virginiana P. Mill. 3294 | Seminole 228 | s54 88 | 493 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Plant used to make pestles and cane mills. | Sturtevant, William, 1954, The Mikasuki Seminole: Medical Beliefs and Practices, Yale University, PhD Thesis, page 493 |
32615 | Quercus ?pauciloba Rydb. (pro sp.) [gambelii ? turbinella] 3250 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 41 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make batten sticks and bows for the baby's cradle. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 41 |
32875 | Rhus aromatica Ait. 3344 | Modesse 145 | m66 109 | 223 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood made into the large plug used to keep the pierced ear lobe open on young girls. | Merriam, C. Hart, 1966, Ethnographic Notes on California Indian Tribes, University of California Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley, page 223 |
33145 | Rhus trilobata Nutt. 3352 | Jemez 102 | c30 28 | 27 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Branches used to make hoe handles. | Cook, Sarah Louise, 1930, The Ethnobotany of Jemez Indians., University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 27 |
33171 | Rhus trilobata Nutt. 3352 | Luiseno 128 | s08 24 | 231 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Twigs made into a seed-fan and used to beat the seeds off plants. | Sparkman, Philip S., 1908, The Culture of the Luiseno Indians, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234, page 231 |
33391 | Ribes bracteosum Dougl. ex Hook. 3361 | Quileute 209 | g73 25 | 32 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Pithless stems used as tubes to inflate seal paunches made into oil containers. | Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 32 |
33435 | Ribes cereum var. pedicellare Brewer & S. Wats. 3364 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 52 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make the distaff used in spinning. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 52 |
33495 | Ribes divaricatum Dougl. 3368 | Salish, Coast 217 | tb71 23 | 84 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Stiff, sharp thorns used as probes for boils, for removing splinters and for tattooing. | Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1971, The Ethnobotany of the Coast Salish Indians of Vancouver Island, I and II, Economic Botany 25(1):63-104, 335-339, page 84 |
33570 | Ribes lacustre (Pers.) Poir. 3375 | Salish, Coast 217 | tb71 23 | 84 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Stiff, sharp thorns used as probes for boils, for removing splinters and for tattooing. | Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1971, The Ethnobotany of the Coast Salish Indians of Vancouver Island, I and II, Economic Botany 25(1):63-104, 335-339, page 84 |
33626 | Ribes lobbii Gray 3378 | Salish, Coast 217 | tb71 23 | 84 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Stiff, sharp thorns used as probes for boils, for removing splinters and for tattooing. | Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1971, The Ethnobotany of the Coast Salish Indians of Vancouver Island, I and II, Economic Botany 25(1):63-104, 335-339, page 84 |
34029 | Rosa gymnocarpa Nutt. 3426 | Thompson 259 | steed28 33 | 498 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make handles. | Steedman, E.V., 1928, The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522, page 498 |
34275 | Rosa woodsii var. woodsii 3436 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 55 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Wood used to make needles for leather work. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 55 |
35651 | Salix amygdaloides Anderss. 3518 | Cheyenne 33 | h81 57 | 37 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Sticks bent and used to remove hair from hides. | Hart, Jeffrey A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 4:1-55, page 37 |
35668 | Salix bebbiana Sarg. 3520 | Cree, Woodlands 58 | l85 47 | 58 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Bark made into netting to clean pitch used in sealing birch bark canoes. | Leighton, Anna L., 1985, Wild Plant Use by the Woods Cree (Nihithawak) of East-Central Saskatchewan, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 58 |
35669 | Salix bebbiana Sarg. 3520 | Cree, Woodlands 58 | l85 47 | 58 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Stems used to make a bead weaving loom. | Leighton, Anna L., 1985, Wild Plant Use by the Woods Cree (Nihithawak) of East-Central Saskatchewan, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 58 |
35699 | Salix bonplandiana Kunth 3521 | Kawaiisu 106 | z81 60 | 61 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Used to make long needles for sewing tule into mats. | Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 61 |
35772 | Salix discolor Muhl. 3525 | Cree, Woodlands 58 | l85 47 | 58 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Bark made into netting to clean pitch used in sealing birch bark canoes. | Leighton, Anna L., 1985, Wild Plant Use by the Woods Cree (Nihithawak) of East-Central Saskatchewan, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 58 |
35773 | Salix discolor Muhl. 3525 | Cree, Woodlands 58 | l85 47 | 58 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Stems used to make a bead weaving loom. | Leighton, Anna L., 1985, Wild Plant Use by the Woods Cree (Nihithawak) of East-Central Saskatchewan, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 58 |
35793 | Salix exigua Nutt. 3527 | Havasupai 89 | ws85 2 | 215 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Used to make tongs for removing cactus fruit. | Weber, Steven A. and P. David Seaman, 1985, Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture, Tucson. The University of Arizona Press, page 215 |
35804 | Salix exigua Nutt. 3527 | Kawaiisu 106 | z81 60 | 61 | Other 3 | Tools 17 | Used to make long needles for sewing tule into mats. | Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 61 |
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CREATE TABLE uses ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL, species INTEGER NOT NULL, tribe INTEGER NOT NULL, source INTEGER NOT NULL, pageno TEXT NOT NULL, use_category INTEGER, use_subcategory INTEGER, notes TEXT, rawsource TEXT NOT NULL, FOREIGN KEY(use_category) REFERENCES use_categories(id), FOREIGN KEY(use_subcategory) REFERENCES use_subcategories(id), FOREIGN KEY(tribe) REFERENCES tribes(id), FOREIGN KEY(species) REFERENCES species(id), FOREIGN KEY(source) REFERENCES sources(id) );