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id ▲ | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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40173 | Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don 3951 | Oweekeno 181 | c93 14 | 63 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Fibrous tissue used to make ceremonial head, neck, ankle and wrist rings. | 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 63 |
40172 | Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don 3951 | Oweekeno 181 | c93 14 | 66 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Bark used to make neck, wrist and ankle rings worn by dancers. | 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 66 |
40149 | Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don 3951 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 20 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Infusion of cedar, fir & rose branches of equal size used as bathing water for sweathouse ritual. | 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 20 |
40148 | Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don 3951 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 20 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Boughs used in church on Palm Sunday. | 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 20 |
40125 | Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don 3951 | Nitinaht 166 | ttco83 101 | 67 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood used to make masks. | 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 67 |
40124 | Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don 3951 | Nitinaht 166 | ttco83 101 | 67 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Boughs used by boys in training for manhood. | 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 67 |
40087 | Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don 3951 | Makah 133 | g83 3 | 228 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood used to make totem poles. | Gill, Steven J., 1983, Ethnobotany of the Makah and Ozette People, Olympic Peninsula, Washington (USA), Washington State University, Ph.D. Thesis, page 228 |
40078 | Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don 3951 | Lummi 129 | g73 25 | 19 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Singed limbs used as brooms to sweep off the walls of a house after removal of a corpse. | Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 19 |
40007 | Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don 3951 | Hanaksiala 88 | c93 14 | 162 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Bark used in the fire dancer's headdress to produce sparks and fire. A baking powder can with a copper tube in front and a flexible hose in the back was filled with burning red cedar outer bark. An aide to the Fire Dancer blew on the hose in the back to produce sparks and smoke at the front of the headdress, which concealed the can and embers. | 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 162 |
39992 | Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don 3951 | Haisla and Hanaksiala 87 | c93 14 | 162 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood used to make coffins. | 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 162 |
39991 | Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don 3951 | Haisla and Hanaksiala 87 | c93 14 | 162 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood used to make ceremonial whistles. | 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 162 |
39990 | Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don 3951 | Haisla and Hanaksiala 87 | c93 14 | 162 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood used to make a special type of 'rattle' for ceremonial activities. | 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 162 |
39989 | Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don 3951 | Haisla and Hanaksiala 87 | c93 14 | 162 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Inner bark rings worn around the neck and on the legs 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 162 |
39988 | Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don 3951 | Haisla and Hanaksiala 87 | c93 14 | 162 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Bark used for many ceremonial purposes. | 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 162 |
39923 | Thuja occidentalis L. 3950 | Potawatomi 206 | smith33 43 | 122 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Preserved or fresh leaves used as a smudge to exorcise evil spirits and purify sacred objects. | Smith, Huron H., 1933, Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230, page 122 |
39712 | Thalictrum fendleri Engelm. ex Gray 3923 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 48 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used to make tea to drink and bathe in on fifth night after blackening ceremony of War Dance. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 48 |
39655 | Tetradymia canescens DC. 3914 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 53 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant ash used for Evilway blackening. | 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 53 |
39563 | Taxus brevifolia Nutt. 3902 | Thompson 259 | tta90 10 | 111 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Branches used by bereaved people to scrub and purify themselves. | 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 111 |
39535 | Taxus brevifolia Nutt. 3902 | Quileute 209 | r36 77 | 57 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood used in various ceremonies. | Reagan, Albert B., 1936, Plants Used by the Hoh and Quileute Indians, Kansas Academy of Science 37:55-70, page 57 |
39512 | Taxus brevifolia Nutt. 3902 | Nitinaht 166 | ttco83 101 | 75 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Branches used as scrubbers in the manhood training rituals of young boys. | 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 75 |
39477 | Taxus brevifolia Nutt. 3902 | Hoh 94 | r36 77 | 57 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood used in various ceremonies. | Reagan, Albert B., 1936, Plants Used by the Hoh and Quileute Indians, Kansas Academy of Science 37:55-70, page 57 |
39423 | Taxodium ascendens Brongn. 3899 | Seminole 228 | s54 88 | 471 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used to make hunting dance posts. | Sturtevant, William, 1954, The Mikasuki Seminole: Medical Beliefs and Practices, Yale University, PhD Thesis, page 471 |
39422 | Taxodium ascendens Brongn. 3899 | Seminole 228 | s54 88 | 471 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used for burial purposes and made into coffin logs. | Sturtevant, William, 1954, The Mikasuki Seminole: Medical Beliefs and Practices, Yale University, PhD Thesis, page 471 |
39120 | Symphoricarpos albus var. albus 3850 | Quileute 209 | r36 77 | 68 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used in ceremonies. | Reagan, Albert B., 1936, Plants Used by the Hoh and Quileute Indians, Kansas Academy of Science 37:55-70, page 68 |
39116 | Symphoricarpos albus var. albus 3850 | Hoh 94 | r36 77 | 68 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used in ceremonies. | Reagan, Albert B., 1936, Plants Used by the Hoh and Quileute Indians, Kansas Academy of Science 37:55-70, page 68 |
39038 | Symphoricarpos albus (L.) Blake 3849 | Cheyenne 33 | h81 57 | 17 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Bushes used to make the Sun Dance altar. | Hart, Jeffrey A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 4:1-55, page 17 |
38914 | Stephanomeria pauciflora (Torr.) A. Nels. 3828 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 50 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used as a paint ingredient for chant arrows used in various ceremonies. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 50 |
38877 | Stenocereus thurberi (Engelm.) Buxbaum 3823 | Papago 188 | cu35 27 | 22 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Pulp boiled with water, strained, boiled again and used as a ceremonial drink. | 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 22 |
38796 | Sporobolus giganteus Nash 3808 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 365 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Stems 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 365 |
38795 | Sporobolus giganteus Nash 3808 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 365 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Pollen used in the hunting ceremony. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 365 |
38794 | Sporobolus giganteus Nash 3808 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 365 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Bundles of plant used to cover kiva entrance during Bean Ceremonial. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 365 |
38682 | Sphaeralcea parvifolia A. Nels. 3780 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 363 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used for mid-winter ceremonials. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 363 |
37944 | Shinnersoseris rostrata (Gray) S. Tomb 3662 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 88 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant offered to the antelope at the Corral Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 88 |
37888 | Shepherdia canadensis (L.) Nutt. 3658 | Shuswap 233 | h49 34 | 12 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Decoction or infusion of berries taken during purification rites. | Hocking, George M., 1949, From Pokeroot to Penicillin, The Rocky Mountain Druggist, November 1949. Pages 12, 38., page 12 |
37754 | Serenoa repens (Bartr.) Small 3655 | Seminole 228 | s54 88 | 504 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used to make dance fans and rattles. | Sturtevant, William, 1954, The Mikasuki Seminole: Medical Beliefs and Practices, Yale University, PhD Thesis, page 504 |
37668 | Senecio flaccidus var. douglasii (DC.) B.L. Turner & T.M. Barkl. 3642 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 88 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant boiled and taken before person goes into sweathouse, to get a good voice for the Night Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 88 |
37534 | Scirpus sp. 3614 | Cahuilla 24 | bs72 31 | 139 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used to make ceremonial bundles and images for image burning ceremony. | 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 139 |
37495 | Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani (K.C. Gmel.) Palla 3609 | Kawaiisu 106 | z81 60 | 63 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used to make images representing the deceased in the ceremony for the dead. | Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 63 |
37394 | Schoenoplectus acutus var. acutus 3603 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 36 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Stems used to make headdresses for Indian doctors. | 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 36 |
37374 | Schoenoplectus acutus var. acutus 3603 | Kansa 104 | g13ii 154 | 323 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Braided stems used as one of the five coverings of the sacred clamshell. The sacred clamshell was kept wrapped in five coverings. The innermost covering was the bladder of a buffalo bull; the second, a covering made of the spotted skin of a fawn; the third was a covering made of braided cattails; the fourth, a very broad piece of deerskin and finally the fifth and outermost covering was made of braided hair from the head of a buffalo bull. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1913, A Study in the Ethnobotany of the Omaha Indians, Nebraska State Historical Society Collections 17:314-57., page 323 |
37373 | Schoenoplectus acutus var. acutus 3603 | 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 |
37354 | Schizachyrium scoparium var. scoparium 3600 | Comanche 48 | cj40 147 | 520 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Bundles of stems used as switches in the sweat lodge. | Carlson, Gustav G. and Volney H. Jones, 1940, Some Notes on Uses of Plants by the Comanche Indians, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters 25:517-542, page 520 |
37160 | Sarcobatus vermiculatus (Hook.) Torr. 3586 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 44 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Roots carved into an image of a snake for the Lightning Chant, Beauty Chant and Mountain Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 44 |
37131 | Sarcobatus vermiculatus (Hook.) Torr. 3586 | Cheyenne 33 | h81 57 | 17 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Sticks used to make man designs upon which Sun Dancers stood. | Hart, Jeffrey A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 4:1-55, page 17 |
36955 | Sanguinaria canadensis L. 3572 | Delaware, Oklahoma 63 | t42 22 | 32, 80 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Root used as a ceremonial face paint. | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1942, A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practice and Folk Beliefs, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission, page 32, 80 |
36951 | Sanguinaria canadensis L. 3572 | Delaware 62 | t72 97 | 38 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Roots used to make the face paint for the Big House Ceremony. | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1972, Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission Anthropological Papers #3, page 38 |
36308 | Salix sp. 3551 | Tewa 257 | rhf16 61 | 48 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Twigs, one for every household in the village, used in December ceremonies. | Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 48 |
36252 | Salix sp. 3551 | Omaha 177 | g19 17 | 73 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Stems used in funeral customs. The burial ceremony occurred four days after the death. The young men and friends of the family of the deceased accompanied the funeral party to the grave where they made parallel gashes in the skin of the forearm and thrust the willow stems into the gashes. The stems were bathed with the young men's blood who attested their sympathy to the living and sang the tribal Song to the Spirit. The song was one of cheer to the departing spirit and one of sympathy to the bereaved. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 73 |
36239 | Salix sp. 3551 | Nitinaht 166 | ttco83 101 | 127 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Soft roots used by young boys and girls as pre-scrubbers in the first stage of adulthood training. | 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 127 |
36231 | Salix sp. 3551 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 38 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Sticks used for the Night Chant and Mountain Chant. For the first day's ceremony of the Mountain Chant, willow sticks were gathered to make the emblem of the concentration of the four winds. A square was made with these sticks, leaving the ends projecting at the corners. The square was then placed over the invalid's head. For the rite of charcoal painting in the Night chant, a quantity of willow sticks, together with several pieces of pine bark, were burned to charcoal. The ashes of two different kinds of weeds, together with the ashes of two small feathers, were then added to the fat of a goat, mountain sheep or other animal, made into balls and daubed on the usual parts of the body. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 38 |
36230 | Salix sp. 3551 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 38 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Peeled sticks made into the talisman used in the Night Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 38 |
36229 | Salix sp. 3551 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 38 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Branches used to make prayersticks, prayerstick foundations and plumed wands. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 38 |
36197 | Salix sp. 3551 | Keresan 108 | w45 90 | 564 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used extensively in making prayer sticks. | 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 564 |
36188 | Salix sp. 3551 | Hopi 95 | w39 37 | 72 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used to make prayersticks. | Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 72 |
36187 | Salix sp. 3551 | Hopi 95 | w39 37 | 72 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Occasionally used in ceremonies. | Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 72 |
36073 | Salix scouleriana Barratt ex Hook. 3547 | Shuswap 233 | palmer75 92 | 68 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Inner bark headbands used by pubescent girls and young men, in ritual isolation and training. | Palmer, Gary, 1975, Shuswap Indian Ethnobotany, Syesis 8:29-51, page 68 |
36019 | Salix prolixa Anderss. 3544 | Blackfoot 23 | j87 146 | 32 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood used to make ceremonial sticks. | Johnston, Alex, 1987, Plants and the Blackfoot, Lethbridge, Alberta. Lethbridge Historical Society, page 32 |
35973 | Salix lucida ssp. lasiandra (Benth.) E. Murr. 3539 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 22 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Stem used to make Lightningway 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 22 |
35927 | Salix irrorata Anderss. 3535 | Keres, Western 107 | swank32 79 | 68 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Branches made into prayer sticks. | Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 68 |
35821 | Salix exigua Nutt. 3527 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 22 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Stem used to make Lightningway 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 22 |
35388 | Rumex hymenosepalus Torr. 3487 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 20 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Pollen sprinkled on ceremonial equipment. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 20 |
35079 | Rubus ursinus Cham. & Schlecht. 3472 | Saanich 215 | tb71 23 | 88 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Stems used in purification rituals before dancing. | 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 88 |
35020 | Rubus spectabilis Pursh 3470 | Quileute 209 | r36 77 | 63 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Sprouts formerly used in courting ceremonies. | Reagan, Albert B., 1936, Plants Used by the Hoh and Quileute Indians, Kansas Academy of Science 37:55-70, page 63 |
35009 | Rubus spectabilis Pursh 3470 | Oweekeno 181 | c93 14 | 113 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant, wild parsnip, gooseberry, rose and mask represented a child in a ceremonial 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 113 |
35002 | Rubus spectabilis Pursh 3470 | Nuxalkmc 171 | c93 14 | 113 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant, wild parsnip, gooseberry and rose used in the dance of Winwina. | 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 113 |
34977 | Rubus spectabilis Pursh 3470 | Hoh 94 | r36 77 | 63 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Sprouts formerly used in courting ceremonies. | Reagan, Albert B., 1936, Plants Used by the Hoh and Quileute Indians, Kansas Academy of Science 37:55-70, page 63 |
34967 | Rubus spectabilis Pursh 3470 | Haisla and Hanaksiala 87 | c93 14 | 279 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Flower used in 'flower dance' costume and in shamanistic performances. | 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 279 |
34280 | Rosa woodsii var. woodsii 3436 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 31 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Stem used to make Holyway 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 31 |
34274 | Rosa woodsii var. woodsii 3436 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 55 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used as a medicine in the Sun's House Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 55 |
34211 | Rosa woodsii Lindl. 3434 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 131 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Branches used by an Indian doctor to sweep out the grave before the corpse was lowered into it. The grave was swept prevent someone else's spirit from being buried with the dead person. | 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 131 |
34114 | Rosa nutkana var. nutkana 3429 | Oweekeno 181 | c93 14 | 111 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant, wild parsnip, salmonberry, gooseberry and mask represented a child in a ceremonial 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 111 |
34109 | Rosa nutkana var. nutkana 3429 | Haisla and Hanaksiala 87 | c93 14 | 273 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Flowers used in 'flower dance' costume. | 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 273 |
34058 | Rosa nutkana K. Presl 3427 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 131 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Branches used by an Indian doctor to sweep out the grave before the corpse was lowered into it. The grave was swept prevent someone else's spirit from being buried with the dead person. | 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 131 |
34024 | Rosa gymnocarpa Nutt. 3426 | Thompson 259 | steed28 33 | 504 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Large branches used for sweeping evil influences out of graves before burial. | Steedman, E.V., 1928, The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522, page 504 |
34003 | Rosa gymnocarpa Nutt. 3426 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 131 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Branches used by an Indian doctor to sweep out the grave before the corpse was lowered into it. The grave was swept prevent someone else's spirit from being buried with the dead person. | 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 131 |
33890 | Rosa acicularis Lindl. 3417 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 131 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Branches used by an Indian doctor to sweep out the grave before the corpse was lowered into it. The grave was swept prevent someone else's spirit from being buried with the dead person. | 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 131 |
33222 | Rhus trilobata Nutt. 3352 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 35 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used to make small hoops on cactus prayerstick of Chiricahua Windway. | 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 35 |
33201 | Rhus trilobata Nutt. 3352 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 60 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood tied with yucca and used to make circle prayersticks. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 60 |
33200 | Rhus trilobata Nutt. 3352 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 60 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Twigs used to make a light frame for the bag carried by the Hunchback in the Night Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 60 |
33199 | Rhus trilobata Nutt. 3352 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 60 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Pollen used in some ceremonies. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 60 |
33198 | Rhus trilobata Nutt. 3352 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 60 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Branch, with eagle down attached, carried by the dancers on the last night of the Mountain Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 60 |
33132 | Rhus trilobata Nutt. 3352 | Hopi 95 | w39 37 | 84 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used to make prayersticks. | Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 84 |
33131 | Rhus trilobata Nutt. 3352 | Hopi 95 | w39 37 | 84 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used for ceremonial equipment. | Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 84 |
33130 | Rhus trilobata Nutt. 3352 | Hopi 95 | f96 72 | 16 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Twigs used for many ceremonial purposes. | Fewkes, J. Walter, 1896, A Contribution to Ethnobotany, American Anthropologist 9:14-21, page 16 |
33129 | Rhus trilobata Nutt. 3352 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 356 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used for ceremonial equipment and prayer sticks. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 356 |
32898 | Rhus copallinum L. 3345 | Delaware, Oklahoma 63 | t42 22 | 78 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Leaves and root used in ceremonial tobacco mixture. | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1942, A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practice and Folk Beliefs, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission, page 78 |
32868 | Rhododendron occidentale (Torr. & Gray ex Torr.) Gray 3341 | Pomo, Kashaya 202 | gl80 40 | 21 | 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 21 |
32857 | Rhododendron macrophyllum D. Don ex G. Don 3339 | Pomo, Kashaya 202 | gl80 40 | 98 | 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 98 |
32464 | Quercus sp. 3289 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 40 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood used, because of it's hardness and great resisting power, in nearly all of the ceremonies. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 40 |
32463 | Quercus sp. 3289 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 40 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used to make digging sticks for the Female Shooting Life Chant for digging medicinal roots. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 40 |
32462 | Quercus sp. 3289 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 40 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Sticks inserted in crevice above door during the dedication and purification of the hogan. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 40 |
32461 | Quercus sp. 3289 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 40 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Curled twig used as a drum stick in the War Dance Ceremony. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 40 |
32344 | Quercus pungens Liebm. 3284 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 41 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood charcoal used as the black for sandpaintings. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 41 |
32091 | Quercus gambelii Nutt. 3263 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 22 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood used to make ceremonial bullroarers. | 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 |
32071 | Quercus gambelii Nutt. 3263 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 355 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used in Oaqol ceremony. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 355 |
31781 | Pyrola chlorantha Sw. 3240 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 35 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used in paint for the God Impersonators. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 35 |
31690 | Purshia tridentata (Pursh) DC. 3231 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 31 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Twig and leaf ash used for Evilway blackening. | 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 31 |
31659 | Purshia stansburiana (Torr.) Henrickson 3230 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 53 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood used to make female prayersticks for the Night Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 53 |
31658 | Purshia stansburiana (Torr.) Henrickson 3230 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 53 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood used to make arrows for the Mountain Chant Ceremony. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 53 |
31651 | Purshia stansburiana (Torr.) Henrickson 3230 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 304 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used ceremonially on the Po-wa-mu altar. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 304 |
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