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id ▼ | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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12514 | Digitalis purpurea L. 1299 | Quileute 209 | r36 77 | 68 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Flowers used for decorations in ceremonies. | Reagan, Albert B., 1936, Plants Used by the Hoh and Quileute Indians, Kansas Academy of Science 37:55-70, page 68 |
12542 | Dimorphocarpa wislizeni (Engelm.) Rollins 1303 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 24 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Mixed with paint and used on prayersticks or ceremonial figurines of water animals. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 24 |
12722 | Dryopteris sp. 1342 | Oweekeno 181 | c93 14 | 53 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Roots used as a shamanistic device in the tsaika ritual. | 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 53 |
12998 | Elaeagnus commutata Bernh. ex Rydb. 1374 | Thompson 259 | steed28 33 | 508 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Bark made into a headband and worn by the man chosen to sing when newborn twins first cried. | Steedman, E.V., 1928, The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522, page 508 |
13432 | Equisetum laevigatum A. Braun 1424 | Hopi 95 | f96 72 | 17 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Dried, ground with corn meal and used to make a ceremonial bread. | Fewkes, J. Walter, 1896, A Contribution to Ethnobotany, American Anthropologist 9:14-21, page 17 |
13498 | Equisetum sp. 1428 | Thompson 259 | steed28 33 | 510 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Stem used to hold lice found in girls' hair and thrown in a stream during puberty ceremonies. | Steedman, E.V., 1928, The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522, page 510 |
13617 | Ericameria nauseosa ssp. nauseosa var. bigelovii (Gray) Nesom & Baird 1450 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 49 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Branch used to make Enemyway prayer stick. | 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 49 |
13629 | Ericameria nauseosa ssp. nauseosa var. glabrata (Gray) Nesom & Baird 1451 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 83 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used to remove evil spells in the Witch, Wind and other chants. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 83 |
13653 | Ericameria nauseosa ssp. nauseosa var. nauseosa 1454 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 303 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used on the Po-wa-mu altar and used in Caquol ceremony. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 303 |
13654 | Ericameria nauseosa ssp. nauseosa var. nauseosa 1454 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 303 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used to weave the wedding belt. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 303 |
13937 | Eriogonum alatum Torr. 1494 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 42 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used in the Life or Knife Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 42 |
14065 | Eriogonum jamesii Benth. 1514 | Zuni 291 | s15 6 | 91 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Ground blossom powder given to ceremonial dancers impersonating anthropic gods to bring rain. The blossom powder was given to the dancers after they were dressed for the ceremony. The dance director placed it in the mouth of each dancer so that the dance would bring rain. Each dancer ejected the medicine from his mouth over his body and apparel. | Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 91 |
14222 | Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'H‚r. ex Ait. 1547 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 29 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used on prayersticks. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 29 |
14321 | Erysimum sp. 1557 | Zuni 291 | s15 6 | 92 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used ceremonially to insure the coming of rain so that the corn and all vegetation would grow. | Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 92 |
14511 | Eupatorium perfoliatum L. 1580 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 457 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used for divination. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 457 |
14713 | Fendlera rupicola Gray 1605 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 318 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used in religious ceremonies. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 318 |
14715 | Fendlera rupicola Gray 1605 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 51 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Notched stick rubbed with a smooth stick instead of beating a drum in the Mountain Chant Ceremony. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 51 |
14716 | Fendlera rupicola Gray 1605 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 51 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used by the Home God in the Mountain Chant Ceremony. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 51 |
14722 | Fendlera rupicola Gray 1605 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 25 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Boiled with juniper berries, pinon buds and corn meal and used in mush-eating ceremonies. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 25 |
14784 | Fomes sp. 1621 | Haisla and Hanaksiala 87 | c93 14 | 135 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used for some aspects of the secret society rituals. | 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 135 |
14794 | Fomitopsis sp. 1624 | Haisla and Hanaksiala 87 | c93 14 | 135 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used for some aspects of the secret society rituals. | 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 135 |
14801 | Forestiera pubescens var. pubescens 1626 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 319 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used to make pahos (prayer sticks). | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 319 |
14805 | Forestiera pubescens var. pubescens 1626 | Jemez 102 | c30 28 | 22 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Berry juice mixed with white clay and used as purple body paint for summer dances. | Cook, Sarah Louise, 1930, The Ethnobotany of Jemez Indians., University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 22 |
14806 | Forestiera pubescens var. pubescens 1626 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 68 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used to make prayersticks. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 68 |
14810 | Forestiera pubescens var. pubescens 1626 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 39 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Stem used to make Evilway big hoop. | 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 39 |
14825 | Fouquieria splendens Engelm. 1630 | Papago 188 | cu35 27 | 54 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Flexible rods used as the basis of ceremonial structures representing clouds or mountains. | 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 54 |
14846 | Fragaria chiloensis (L.) P. Mill. 1632 | Pomo, Kashaya 202 | gl80 40 | 109 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Berry used in the flower dance at the Strawberry Festival, danced by young girls. The wild strawberries could be eaten only after the strawberries were danced and blessed; they were eaten on picnic day. | Goodrich, Jennie and Claudia Lawson, 1980, Kashaya Pomo Plants, Los Angeles. American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, page 109 |
14950 | Fragaria vesca ssp. californica (Cham. & Schlecht.) Staudt 1639 | Pomo, Kashaya 202 | gl80 40 | 110 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Berry used in the flower dance at the Strawberry Festival, danced by young girls. The wild strawberries could be eaten only after the strawberries were danced and blessed; they were eaten on picnic day. | Goodrich, Jennie and Claudia Lawson, 1980, Kashaya Pomo Plants, Los Angeles. American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, page 110 |
14993 | Fragaria virginiana Duchesne 1640 | Iroquois 100 | p10 107 | 96 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Fruits used as symbols of the Creator's beneficence in the Strawberry Thanksgiving ceremony. | Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1910, Iroquois Uses of Maize and Other Food Plants, Albany, NY. University of the State of New York, page 96 |
15216 | Fraxinus anomala Torr. ex S. Wats. 1656 | Hopi 95 | wh51 106 | 35 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used for prayersticks. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 35 |
15217 | Fraxinus anomala Torr. ex S. Wats. 1656 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 35 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Seeds used in prayer for rain. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 35 |
15297 | Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marsh. 1660 | Omaha 177 | g19 17 | 108 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood and cottonwood used to make the sacred pole. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 108 |
15305 | Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marsh. 1660 | Ponca 205 | g19 17 | 108 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood and cottonwood used to make the sacred pole. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 108 |
15311 | Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marsh. 1660 | Sioux 238 | h92 30 | 20 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood used as a part of sacred poles. | Hart, Jeff, 1992, Montana Native Plants and Early Peoples, Helena. Montana Historical Society Press, page 20 |
15360 | Fritillaria camschatcensis (L.) Ker-Gawl. 1668 | Hanaksiala 88 | c93 14 | 196 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Flowers used on costumes for the New Year 'flower dance.' | 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 196 |
15399 | Fucus gardneri Silva 1672 | Nitinaht 166 | ttco83 101 | 51 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plants rubbed on body by pregnant women expecting their unborn baby boys to become whalers. | Turner, Nancy J., John Thomas, Barry F. Carlson and Robert T. Ogilvie, 1983, Ethnobotany of the Nitinaht Indians of Vancouver Island, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 51 |
15543 | Ganoderma sp. 1695 | Haisla and Hanaksiala 87 | c93 14 | 135 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used for some aspects of the secret society rituals. | 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 135 |
15799 | Geranium atropurpureum Heller 1722 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 29 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Blossoming plant dipped in sea water, salt and water plants to bring rain. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 29 |
16132 | Gossypium hirsutum L. 1766 | Zuni 291 | s15 6 | 77 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Cotton used to make ceremonial garments. | Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 77 |
16133 | Gossypium hirsutum L. 1766 | Zuni 291 | s15 6 | 92 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Fuzz used alone or made into cords and used ceremonially in a number of ways. The cotton cords were tied loosely around the wrists and ankles of the newborn child while supplications were offered that the rain makers would provide enough rain to insure proliferative crops so that the child would have full nourishment its whole life. Cotton down was used to cover the heads of rain priests after their deaths symbolizing their duties in this world and also their obligations in the undermost world. Crowns and certain masks were also covered with raw cotton to indicate that the gods represented were rain makers or were specially associated with the rain makers. | Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 92 |
16144 | Gossypium sp. 1768 | Santa Clara 227 | rhf16 61 | 102 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Formerly used to weave large ceremonial blankets. | Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 102 |
16147 | Gossypium sp. 1768 | Tewa of Hano 258 | rhf16 61 | 102 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used to make the strings for prayer feathers. | Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 102 |
16279 | Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt. & Rusby 1786 | Hopi 95 | f96 72 | 15 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Sprig attached to the paho (prayer emblem). | Fewkes, J. Walter, 1896, A Contribution to Ethnobotany, American Anthropologist 9:14-21, page 15 |
16280 | Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt. & Rusby 1786 | Hopi 95 | rhf16 61 | 56 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Sprigs tied on prayer sticks during the December ceremonies. | Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 56 |
16281 | Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt. & Rusby 1786 | Hopi 95 | vest40 126 | 168 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Tied onto the prayer stick. | Vestal, Paul A, 1940, Notes on a Collection of Plants from the Hopi Indian Region of Arizona Made by J. G. Owens in 1891, Botanical Museum Leaflets (Harvard University) 8(8):153-168, page 168 |
16282 | Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt. & Rusby 1786 | Hopi 95 | vest40 126 | 168 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Tied onto the prayer stick. | Vestal, Paul A, 1940, Notes on a Collection of Plants from the Hopi Indian Region of Arizona Made by J. G. Owens in 1891, Botanical Museum Leaflets (Harvard University) 8(8):153-168, page 168 |
16283 | Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt. & Rusby 1786 | Hopi 95 | vest40 126 | 168 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Tied onto the prayer stick. | Vestal, Paul A, 1940, Notes on a Collection of Plants from the Hopi Indian Region of Arizona Made by J. G. Owens in 1891, Botanical Museum Leaflets (Harvard University) 8(8):153-168, page 168 |
16313 | Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt. & Rusby 1786 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 86 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Leaves, grama grass, sagebrush and unidentified leaves burned to charcoal for blackening ceremony. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 86 |
16314 | Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt. & Rusby 1786 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 86 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood ash and pitch used to cover the oak bull-roarer for the Female Shooting Life Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 86 |
16320 | Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt. & Rusby 1786 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 48 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant placed on top of most ceremonial prayersticks and figurines. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 48 |
16333 | Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt. & Rusby 1786 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 51 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Fresh branches used to make Evilway unravelers. | 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 51 |
16334 | Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt. & Rusby 1786 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 51 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Fresh branches used to make cactus prayer sticks for Chiricahua Windway and Enemyway prayer sticks. | 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 51 |
16335 | Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt. & Rusby 1786 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 51 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant ash used as Evilway, Holyway and Hand Tremblingway blackenings. | 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 51 |
16352 | Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt. & Rusby 1786 | Tewa of Hano 258 | rhf16 61 | 56 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Sprigs tied on prayer sticks during the December ceremonies. | Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 56 |
16358 | Gutierrezia sp. 1787 | Apache, Chiricahua & Mescalero 11 | co36 95 | 24 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used in ceremonial contexts. | 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 24 |
16361 | Gutierrezia sp. 1787 | Hualapai 97 | w82 127 | 16 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used as an important plant in rain ceremonies. | Watahomigie, Lucille J., 1982, Hualapai Ethnobotany, Peach Springs, AZ. Hualapai Bilingual Program, Peach Springs School District #8, page 16 |
16577 | Helianthus annuus L. 1821 | Isleta 101 | j31 76 | 31 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Pith used to light the ceremonial cigarettes. | Jones, Volney H., 1931, The Ethnobotany of the Isleta Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 31 |
16600 | Helianthus annuus L. 1821 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 87 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Hollow stalk used in the illusion of swallowing the arrow during the Mountain Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 87 |
16601 | Helianthus annuus L. 1821 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 87 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Stalk made into flute used in an ancient custom of timing the grinding of the corn at the War Dance. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 87 |
16610 | Helianthus annuus L. 1821 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 51 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Stem used to make Holyway Prayer stick. | 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 51 |
16638 | Helianthus annuus L. 1821 | Zuni 291 | s15 6 | 93 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Blossoms used ceremonially for anthropic worship. | Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 93 |
16667 | Helianthus petiolaris Nutt. 1832 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 324 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Dried petals ground and mixed with corn meal to make yellow face powder for women's basket dance. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 324 |
16683 | Helianthus sp. 1833 | Hopi 95 | w39 37 | 97 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Seeds used to make a ceremonial body paint. | Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 97 |
16792 | Heracleum maximum Bartr. 1851 | Blackfoot 23 | m90 111 | 50 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Stalk placed on altar of Sun Dance ceremonial. | Murphey, Edith Van Allen, 1990, Indian Uses of Native Plants, Glenwood, Ill. Meyerbooks. Originally published in 1959, page 50 |
16793 | Heracleum maximum Bartr. 1851 | Blackfoot 23 | m09 42 | 277 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Stalks placed on the altar of the Sun Dance ceremonial. | McClintock, Walter, 1909, Medizinal- Und Nutzpflanzen Der Schwarzfuss Indianer, Zeitschriff fur Ethnologie 41:273-9, page 277 |
16893 | Heracleum maximum Bartr. 1851 | Omaha 177 | g19 17 | 107 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Pounded, dried roots mixed with beaver dung and planted in the same hole as the sacred pole. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 107 |
16972 | Hesperostipa neomexicana (Thurb. ex Coult.) Barkworth 1857 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 367 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used for necklaces on the first initiants in the Wu-chim ceremony. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 367 |
16976 | Hesperostipa spartea (Trin.) Barkworth 1858 | Omaha 177 | g19 17 | 66 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Stiff awns firmly bound into a bundle and the pointed grains burned off to make a ceremonial brush. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 66 |
16978 | Hesperostipa spartea (Trin.) Barkworth 1858 | Pawnee 190 | g19 17 | 66 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Stiff awns firmly bound into a bundle and the pointed grains burned off to make a ceremonial brush. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 66 |
16980 | Hesperostipa spartea (Trin.) Barkworth 1858 | Ponca 205 | g19 17 | 66 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Stiff awns firmly bound into a bundle and the pointed grains burned off to make a ceremonial brush. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 66 |
17198 | Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. 1896 | Blackfoot 23 | m90 111 | 51 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Braided plant put up on Sun Dance alters and used in religious services. | Murphey, Edith Van Allen, 1990, Indian Uses of Native Plants, Glenwood, Ill. Meyerbooks. Originally published in 1959, page 51 |
17199 | Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. 1896 | Blackfoot 23 | h74 26 | 9 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Grass braids strung on the inside of headbands of the Motokiks headdresses. | Hellson, John C., 1974, Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 9 |
17200 | Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. 1896 | Blackfoot 23 | h74 26 | 9 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Grass braids tied vertically around the base of the Horn Society staffs. | Hellson, John C., 1974, Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 9 |
17201 | Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. 1896 | Blackfoot 23 | h74 26 | 9 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Grass essential to the raising of a fallen dancer or fallen paraphernalia. | Hellson, John C., 1974, Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 9 |
17202 | Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. 1896 | Blackfoot 23 | h74 26 | 9 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Grass water used to bathe the mother 34 days after giving birth and before returning home. | Hellson, John C., 1974, Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 9 |
17203 | Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. 1896 | Blackfoot 23 | h92 30 | 28 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Leaves ceremonially smoked with tobacco. | Hart, Jeff, 1992, Montana Native Plants and Early Peoples, Helena. Montana Historical Society Press, page 28 |
17204 | Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. 1896 | Blackfoot 23 | h92 30 | 28 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Smoke from burning grass used to purify Sundance dancers. | Hart, Jeff, 1992, Montana Native Plants and Early Peoples, Helena. Montana Historical Society Press, page 28 |
17205 | Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. 1896 | Blackfoot 23 | h74 26 | 9 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Stems burned and prayers said during every ceremony. | Hellson, John C., 1974, Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 9 |
17206 | Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. 1896 | Blackfoot 23 | j87 146 | 20 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used in the Sun Dance ceremony and burned on a small altar found in many lodges. | Johnston, Alex, 1987, Plants and the Blackfoot, Lethbridge, Alberta. Lethbridge Historical Society, page 20 |
17221 | Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. 1896 | Cheyenne 33 | g72 39 | 170 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Dried leaves burned over coals in many ceremonies. | Grinnell, George Bird, 1972, The Cheyenne Indians - Their History and Ways of Life Vol.2, Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press, page 170 |
17222 | Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. 1896 | Cheyenne 33 | h92 30 | 28 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Smoke from burning grass used for purification of rattles, sacred shields and Sundance dancers. | Hart, Jeff, 1992, Montana Native Plants and Early Peoples, Helena. Montana Historical Society Press, page 28 |
17226 | Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. 1896 | Chippewa 38 | d28 4 | 378 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used for ceremonial, economic and pleasurable purposes. | Densmore, Frances, 1928, Uses of Plants by the Chippewa Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #44:273-379, page 378 |
17229 | Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. 1896 | Dakota 61 | g19 17 | 91 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used in religious ceremonies. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 91 |
17251 | Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. 1896 | Lakota 125 | r80 108 | 30 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Grass used in religious ceremonies. | Rogers, Dilwyn J, 1980, Lakota Names and Traditional Uses of Native Plants by Sicangu (Brule) People in the Rosebud Area, South Dakota, St. Francis, SD. Rosebud Educational Scoiety, page 30 |
17252 | Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. 1896 | Lakota 125 | k90 156 | 49 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Strands of grass burned to bring guardian spirits. | Kraft, Shelly Katheren, 1990, Recent Changes in the Ethnobotany of Standing Rock Indian Reservation, University of North Dakota, M.A. Thesis, page 49 |
17261 | Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. 1896 | Montana Indian 151 | h92 30 | 28 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Burned as incense for spiritual protection and purification. | Hart, Jeff, 1992, Montana Native Plants and Early Peoples, Helena. Montana Historical Society Press, page 28 |
17266 | Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. 1896 | Omaha 177 | g13ii 154 | 320 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used as incense. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1913, A Study in the Ethnobotany of the Omaha Indians, Nebraska State Historical Society Collections 17:314-57., page 320 |
17271 | Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. 1896 | Sioux 238 | h92 30 | 28 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Leaves ceremonially smoked with tobacco. | Hart, Jeff, 1992, Montana Native Plants and Early Peoples, Helena. Montana Historical Society Press, page 28 |
17272 | Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. 1896 | Sioux 238 | h92 30 | 28 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Smoke from burning grass used to purify Sundance dancers. | Hart, Jeff, 1992, Montana Native Plants and Early Peoples, Helena. Montana Historical Society Press, page 28 |
17596 | Hymenoxys cooperi (Gray) Cockerell 1950 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 329 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used for peach tree pahos (prayer sticks). | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 329 |
17865 | Ipomoea leptophylla Torr. 1990 | Keresan 108 | w45 90 | 559 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Root used to make hindquarters of little hobbyhorse 'ridden' by saints in ceremonial impersonations. | White, Leslie A, 1945, Notes on the Ethnobotany of the Keres, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters 30:557-568, page 559 |
17986 | Ipomopsis longiflora ssp. longiflora 2002 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 70 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used to make prebreakfast drink and taken to make the person 'bark' or sing loudly for Squaw Dance. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 70 |
18016 | Iris douglasiana Herbert 2008 | Pomo, Kashaya 202 | gl80 40 | 62 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Flowers used in dance wreathes at the Strawberry Festival. | Goodrich, Jennie and Claudia Lawson, 1980, Kashaya Pomo Plants, Los Angeles. American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, page 62 |
18157 | Jacquinia pungens 2025 | Seri 229 | d44 29 | 136 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Dried nuts used as favorite rattle beads. | Dawson, E. Yale, 1944, Some Ethnobotanical Notes on the Seri Indians, Desert Plant Life 9:133-138, page 136 |
18330 | Juncus balticus Willd. 2038 | Hopi 95 | w39 37 | 70 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Ceremonially associated with water. | Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 70 |
18400 | Juncus torreyi Coville 2052 | Hopi 95 | w39 37 | 70 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Ceremonially associated with water. | Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 70 |
18475 | Juniperus communis L. 2054 | Gitksan 78 | c93 14 | 314 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used for rituals. | 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 314 |
18476 | Juniperus communis L. 2054 | Haisla 86 | c93 14 | 160 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood used to make rattles worn on belts by shamans. | 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 160 |
18478 | Juniperus communis L. 2054 | Heiltzuk 91 | c93 14 | 62 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used as a part of a process of preparation undergone by shamanistic initiates. | 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 62 |
18500 | Juniperus communis L. 2054 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 18 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used in the sweathouse during the winter. | 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 18 |
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