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5442 | Artemisia ludoviciana ssp. ludoviciana 401 | Lakota 125 | r80 108 | 36 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used to make wreaths and bracelets for the sun dance and used in the sweat lodge. | 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 36 |
5470 | Artemisia ludoviciana ssp. ludoviciana 401 | Paiute 183 | m90 111 | 51 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used as wash by dancers after the Sun Dance. | Murphey, Edith Van Allen, 1990, Indian Uses of Native Plants, Glenwood, Ill. Meyerbooks. Originally published in 1959, page 51 |
5507 | Artemisia ludoviciana ssp. mexicana (Willd. ex Spreng.) Keck 402 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 48 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant ash used in blackening ceremonies. | 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 48 |
5510 | Artemisia sp. 404 | 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 |
5544 | Artemisia sp. 404 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 81 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Bunches of plant, with other plants, tied to corners of hoops used in unraveling ceremonial objects. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 81 |
5545 | Artemisia sp. 404 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 81 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used as a wand when practicing for the Night Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 81 |
5589 | Artemisia tilesii Ledeb. 406 | Eskimo, Western 75 | l59 177 | 39 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used as a switch during the sweatbath. | Lantis, Margaret, 1959, Folk Medicine and Hygiene, Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska 8:1-75, page 39 |
5642 | Artemisia tridentata Nutt. 407 | Kawaiisu 106 | z81 60 | 13 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Seeds thrown into a fire to explode 'like firecrackers' during celebrations. | Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 13 |
5816 | Artemisia tridentata Nutt. 407 | Washo 276 | m90 111 | 51 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used for medicine man's costume. | Murphey, Edith Van Allen, 1990, Indian Uses of Native Plants, Glenwood, Ill. Meyerbooks. Originally published in 1959, page 51 |
5943 | Arundo donax L. 420 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 24 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Reed made into a whistle and attached to the collar of a otter skin for the Night Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 24 |
5944 | Arundo donax L. 420 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 24 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Reed used to make prayersticks. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 24 |
5945 | Arundo donax L. 420 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 24 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Reed, with tassels, used in the special pouch required for every chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 24 |
6275 | Asclepias subverticillata (Gray) Vail 445 | Zuni 291 | s15 6 | 88 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Coma made into cords and used for fastening plumes to the prayer sticks. The sticks were used as offerings and were planted in the fields and in sacred springs. An excavation was made in the bed of the spring in which the offerings were deposited with a stone attached and covered with soil from the bottom. | Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 88 |
6439 | Aster sp. 459 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 82 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used, with other plants, as a liniment for the Bead Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 82 |
6440 | Aster sp. 459 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 82 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used, with other plants, as the Bead Chant tobacco. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 82 |
6443 | Astragalus allochrous Gray 460 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 55 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used in the Night Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 55 |
6494 | Astragalus crassicarpus var. crassicarpus 473 | Omaha 177 | g19 17 | 91 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Fruits gathered just before corn planting time and ceremonially soaked with seed corn. The fruits were not planted with the seed corn, but were discarded before planting. The informants could not give a reason for this process as they said they had forgotten the origin of the old custom. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 91 |
6495 | Astragalus crassicarpus var. crassicarpus 473 | Ponca 205 | g19 17 | 91 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Fruits gathered just before corn planting time and ceremonially soaked with seed corn. The fruits were not planted with the seed corn, but were discarded before planting. The informants could not give a reason for this process as they said they had forgotten the origin of the old custom. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 91 |
6513 | Astragalus lentiginosus var. palans (M.E. Jones) M.E. Jones 482 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 27 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used as a charm in some prayers. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 27 |
6524 | Astragalus mollissimus var. matthewsii (S. Wats.) Barneby 487 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 56 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used by the male and female shooters in the Lightning Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 56 |
6620 | Atriplex canescens (Pursh) Nutt. 503 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 292 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant 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 292 |
6649 | Atriplex canescens (Pursh) Nutt. 503 | Tewa 257 | c74 82 | 292 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant 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 292 |
6654 | Atriplex canescens (Pursh) Nutt. 503 | Zuni 291 | s15 6 | 88 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Twigs attached to prayer plumes and sacrificed to the cottontail rabbit to ensure good hunting. | Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 88 |
6965 | Bambusa sp. 551 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 25 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Stems made into whistles and used in certain ceremonies. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 25 |
7088 | Betula alleghaniensis var. alleghaniensis 575 | Ojibwa 173 | r28 8 | 241 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Bark placed on the coffins when burying the dead. | Reagan, Albert B., 1928, Plants Used by the Bois Fort Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians of Minnesota, Wisconsin Archeologist 7(4):230-248, page 241 |
7112 | Betula lenta L. 576 | Ojibwa 173 | r28 8 | 241 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Bark placed on the coffins when burying the dead. | Reagan, Albert B., 1928, Plants Used by the Bois Fort Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians of Minnesota, Wisconsin Archeologist 7(4):230-248, page 241 |
7242 | Betula papyrifera Marsh. 580 | Ojibwa 173 | r28 8 | 241 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Bark placed on the coffins when burying the dead. | Reagan, Albert B., 1928, Plants Used by the Bois Fort Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians of Minnesota, Wisconsin Archeologist 7(4):230-248, page 241 |
7440 | Bouteloua gracilis (Willd. ex Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths 608 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 25 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Tied to the end of the wand carried by the girl in the Squaw Dance. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 25 |
7454 | Bouteloua sp. 611 | 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 |
7557 | Brickellia grandiflora (Hook.) Nutt. 627 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 83 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant and other plants used as a ceremonial liniment for the Female Shooting Life Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 83 |
7605 | Broussonetia papyrifera (L.) L'H‚r. ex Vent. 643 | Apache, Chiricahua & Mescalero 11 | co36 95 | 54 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Seeds worn around the neck in a string during ceremonies. | 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 54 |
7639 | Calamovilfa gigantea (Nutt.) Scribn. & Merr. 659 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 296 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used to make a carrying case for a part of the wedding garments. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 296 |
7640 | Calamovilfa gigantea (Nutt.) Scribn. & Merr. 659 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 296 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used to make prayer sticks. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 296 |
7705 | Calochortus aureus S. Wats. 669 | Hopi 95 | w39 37 | 70 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Ceremonially used as the Yellow Flower associated with the northwest direction. | Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 70 |
7756 | Calochortus nuttallii Torr. & Gray 677 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 295 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Yellow flower used ceremonially. In the spring, the flower is collected in quantity together with larkspur. Boys holding handfuls of these two plants above their heads are chased by the girls upon certain occasions. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 295 |
7940 | Campanula uniflora L. 714 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 79 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Pollen used for some of the sacred ceremonies. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 79 |
8009 | Cardamine concatenata (Michx.) Sw. 729 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 340 | 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 340 |
8076 | Carex nebrascensis Dewey 745 | Blackfoot 23 | m09 42 | 277 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Grass tied by medicine men to horns of the sacred buffalo head used in the Sun Dance ceremony. | McClintock, Walter, 1909, Medizinal- Und Nutzpflanzen Der Schwarzfuss Indianer, Zeitschriff fur Ethnologie 41:273-9, page 277 |
8077 | Carex nebrascensis Dewey 745 | Blackfoot 23 | j87 146 | 22 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Leaves tied around the horn of the sacred buffalo skull used in ceremonials. | Johnston, Alex, 1987, Plants and the Blackfoot, Lethbridge, Alberta. Lethbridge Historical Society, page 22 |
8078 | Carex nebrascensis Dewey 745 | Blackfoot 23 | m90 111 | 51 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant tied around the horns of the buffalo head in the Sun Dance. | Murphey, Edith Van Allen, 1990, Indian Uses of Native Plants, Glenwood, Ill. Meyerbooks. Originally published in 1959, page 51 |
8104 | Carex sp. 752 | Jemez 102 | c30 28 | 21 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant considered sacred and used in the kiva. | Cook, Sarah Louise, 1930, The Ethnobotany of Jemez Indians., University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 21 |
8147 | Carnegia gigantea (Engelm.) Britt. & Rose 757 | Apache, Western 14 | b86 87 | 178 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Whole fruit mashed, water added and mixture drunk after a two day burial in a dry place. The drink was consumed immediately after the two-day burial and said to be better than tiswin. | Buskirk, Winfred, 1986, The Western Apache: Living With the Land Before 1950, Norman. University of Oklahoma Press, page 178 |
8461 | Castilleja densiflora ssp. densiflora 783 | Pomo, Kashaya 202 | gl80 40 | 35 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Flowers used in dance wreaths at the Strawberry Festival in May. | Goodrich, Jennie and Claudia Lawson, 1980, Kashaya Pomo Plants, Los Angeles. American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, page 35 |
8462 | Castilleja exserta ssp. exserta 784 | Pomo, Kashaya 202 | gl80 40 | 35 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Flowers used in dance wreaths at the Strawberry Festival in May. | Goodrich, Jennie and Claudia Lawson, 1980, Kashaya Pomo Plants, Los Angeles. American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, page 35 |
8469 | Castilleja integra Gray 787 | Keres, Western 107 | swank32 79 | 35 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant held by women for decoration during the harvest dance. | Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 35 |
8481 | Castilleja linariifolia Benth. 788 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 297 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used ceremonially as the 'Red Flower' associated with the southeast direction. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 297 |
8482 | Castilleja linariifolia Benth. 788 | Hopi 95 | w39 37 | 91 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used ceremonially as the Red Flower associated with the southeast direction. | Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 91 |
8495 | Castilleja linariifolia Benth. 788 | Tewa 257 | c74 82 | 297 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used ceremonially as the 'Red Flower' associated with the southeast direction. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 297 |
8519 | Castilleja miniata ssp. miniata 791 | Keres, Western 107 | swank32 79 | 35 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant held by women for decoration during the harvest dance. | Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 35 |
8649 | Ceanothus griseus (Trel. ex B.L. Robins.) McMinn 811 | Pomo, Kashaya 202 | gl80 40 | 23 | 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 23 |
8686 | Ceanothus thyrsiflorus Eschsch. 818 | Pomo, Kashaya 202 | gl80 40 | 23 | 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 23 |
8892 | Cercocarpus intricatus S. Wats. 840 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 299 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used during mid-winter ceremonial to make prayer sticks. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 299 |
8893 | Cercocarpus intricatus S. Wats. 840 | Tewa 257 | c74 82 | 299 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used during mid-winter ceremonial to make prayer sticks. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 299 |
8953 | Cercocarpus montanus Raf. 842 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 53 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood used to make the sweathouse and male prayersticks for ceremonies. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 53 |
8962 | Cercocarpus montanus Raf. 842 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 30 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood made into stirring sticks for Chiricahua Windway mixed decoction. | 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 30 |
8971 | Cercocarpus montanus var. glaber (S. Wats.) F.L. Martin 843 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 298 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood used to make pahos (prayersticks). | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 298 |
9503 | Chenopodium graveolens Willd. 900 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 44 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used, with other herbs, in the liniment for the Mountain Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 44 |
9559 | Chenopodium sp. 910 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 44 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used, with other plants, as a liniment in the Mountain Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 44 |
9803 | Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus (Hook.) Nutt. 935 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 302 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used for ceremonies. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 302 |
10052 | Cissus verticillata (L.) D.H. Nicols. & Jarvis 976 | Seminole 228 | s54 88 | 474 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used at the busk ceremonies. | Sturtevant, William, 1954, The Mikasuki Seminole: Medical Beliefs and Practices, Yale University, PhD Thesis, page 474 |
10271 | Clematis occidentalis var. occidentalis 1020 | Blackfoot 23 | h74 26 | 111 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Leaves used to remove 'ghost bullets,' supernatural objects shot into people by ghosts. The bullets were removed by a diviner either with a sucking tube or through a slit in the skin made with a flint. Then the leaves were boiled and applied to the place where the bullets were removed. Fainting was often the result of coming near a ghost and the victim was revived with a smudge of the stem of this plant. | Hellson, John C., 1974, Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 111 |
10348 | Cleome serrulata Pursh 1026 | Zuni 291 | s15 6 | 96 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant paste used with black mineral paint to color sticks of plume offerings to anthropic gods. The plant was boiled for a long time and the concoction allowed to evaporate. The precipitated paste was then used with black mineral paint to color sticks of plume offerings to anthropic gods. | Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 96 |
10432 | Cocos nucifera L. 1040 | Seminole 228 | s54 88 | 503 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used to make dance rattles. | Sturtevant, William, 1954, The Mikasuki Seminole: Medical Beliefs and Practices, Yale University, PhD Thesis, page 503 |
10840 | Cornus canadensis L. 1091 | Hoh 94 | r36 77 | 66 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Berries used in ceremonies. | Reagan, Albert B., 1936, Plants Used by the Hoh and Quileute Indians, Kansas Academy of Science 37:55-70, page 66 |
10857 | Cornus canadensis L. 1091 | Quileute 209 | r36 77 | 66 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Berries used in ceremonies. | Reagan, Albert B., 1936, Plants Used by the Hoh and Quileute Indians, Kansas Academy of Science 37:55-70, page 66 |
10906 | Cornus nuttallii Audubon ex Torr. & Gray 1096 | Hoh 94 | r36 77 | 66 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Berries used in ceremonies. | Reagan, Albert B., 1936, Plants Used by the Hoh and Quileute Indians, Kansas Academy of Science 37:55-70, page 66 |
10914 | Cornus nuttallii Audubon ex Torr. & Gray 1096 | Quileute 209 | r36 77 | 66 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Berries used in ceremonies. | Reagan, Albert B., 1936, Plants Used by the Hoh and Quileute Indians, Kansas Academy of Science 37:55-70, page 66 |
10977 | Cornus sericea ssp. occidentalis (Torr. & Gray) Fosberg 1101 | Hoh 94 | r36 77 | 66 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Berries used in ceremonies. | Reagan, Albert B., 1936, Plants Used by the Hoh and Quileute Indians, Kansas Academy of Science 37:55-70, page 66 |
10982 | Cornus sericea ssp. occidentalis (Torr. & Gray) Fosberg 1101 | Quileute 209 | r36 77 | 66 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Berries used in ceremonies. | Reagan, Albert B., 1936, Plants Used by the Hoh and Quileute Indians, Kansas Academy of Science 37:55-70, page 66 |
11004 | Cornus sericea ssp. sericea 1102 | Blackfoot 23 | h74 26 | 14 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant mixed with tobacco, kinnikinnick or dried cambium and used in all religious bundles. | Hellson, John C., 1974, Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 14 |
11015 | Cornus sericea ssp. sericea 1102 | Cheyenne 33 | h81 57 | 23 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant smoked ceremonially. | Hart, Jeffrey A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 4:1-55, page 23 |
11080 | Cornus sericea ssp. sericea 1102 | Montana Indian 151 | h92 30 | 21 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Ribbons of inner bark roasted, mixed with tobacco and used for ceremonial or religious pipe smoking. | Hart, Jeff, 1992, Montana Native Plants and Early Peoples, Helena. Montana Historical Society Press, page 21 |
11556 | Cucumis melo L. 1157 | Hopi 95 | w39 37 | 93 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Seeds mixed with juniper charcoal and water and made into a ceremonial body paint. | Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 93 |
11586 | Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth 1161 | Apache, White Mountain 15 | r29 45 | 156 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Leaves ground and used as 'green paint' in making sand paintings. | Reagan, Albert B., 1929, Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona, Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61., page 156 |
11596 | Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth 1161 | Cahuilla 24 | bs72 31 | 57 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Dried gourds used to make rattles. | 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 57 |
11608 | Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth 1161 | Keres, Western 107 | swank32 79 | 40 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Ripe gourds used as rattles in dances. | Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 40 |
11745 | Cucurbita pepo L. 1164 | Zuni 291 | s15 6 | 88 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Gourds worn in phallic dances symbolizing fructification or made into ceremonial rattles. The gourd rattles were used in ceremonies for both anthropic and zooic worship. | Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 88 |
11845 | Cymopterus purpurascens (Gray) M.E. Jones 1188 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 34 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used in paint for prayersticks. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 34 |
11973 | Dalea candida var. candida 1216 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 57 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Ground plant mixed with other ingredients and used in the Wind Chant. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 57 |
12054 | Dasiphora floribunda (Pursh) Kartesz 1234 | Jemez 102 | c30 28 | 22 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Yellow flowers used for the summer dances. | Cook, Sarah Louise, 1930, The Ethnobotany of Jemez Indians., University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 22 |
12068 | Dasylirion wheeleri S. Wats. 1237 | Apache, Mescalero 12 | b74 52 | 41 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Stalks used in the head dress of Mountain Spirit dancers. | Basehart, Harry W., 1974, Apache Indians XII. Mescalero Apache Subsistence Patterns and Socio-Political Organization, New York. Garland Publishing Inc., page 41 |
12143 | Datura wrightii Regel 1244 | Cahuilla 24 | bs72 31 | 60 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant offered a means of coming into contact with the sacred world. | 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 60 |
12144 | Datura wrightii Regel 1244 | Cahuilla 24 | bs72 31 | 60 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Roots used to make a drink taken at rituals. | 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 60 |
12145 | Datura wrightii Regel 1244 | Cahuilla 24 | bs72 31 | 60 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used ritually in male puberty ceremonies. | 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 60 |
12164 | Datura wrightii Regel 1244 | Diegueno 65 | hedges86 85 | 17 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used to make a tea given to young men learning to become dancers for ceremonies. | Hedges, Ken, 1986, Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany, San Diego Museum of Man Ethnic Technology Notes, No. 20, page 17 |
12165 | Datura wrightii Regel 1244 | Diegueno 65 | hedges86 85 | 17 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Well known as a hallucinogenic plant used in rites marking boys' initiation into the toloache cult. | Hedges, Ken, 1986, Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany, San Diego Museum of Man Ethnic Technology Notes, No. 20, page 17 |
12195 | Datura wrightii Regel 1244 | Luiseno 128 | s08 24 | 207 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Roots pounded in a mortar and used at boys' puberty ceremonies. | Sparkman, Philip S., 1908, The Culture of the Luiseno Indians, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234, page 207 |
12243 | Datura wrightii Regel 1244 | Zuni 291 | s15 6 | 88 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Powdered root used by rain priests in a number of ways to ensure fruitful rains. | Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 88 |
12244 | Datura wrightii Regel 1244 | Zuni 291 | s15 6 | 88 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Root pieces chewed by a robbery victim in order to find out the thief's identity. The root was given to the victim by a rain priest. The victim was told to chew the root and that the medicine would induce dreams of the thief. The rain priest would ask the victim to tell him everything he remembered in his dream so that he could identify the thief and recover the stolen property. | Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 88 |
12245 | Datura wrightii Regel 1244 | Zuni 291 | s15 6 | 93 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Wood used as a favorite firewood, but more importantly in ceremonies. | Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 93 |
12284 | Delphinium carolinianum ssp. virescens (Nutt.) Brooks 1248 | Kiowa 111 | vs39 140 | 28 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Small seeds used in peyote rattles. | Vestal, Paul A. and Richard Evans Schultes, 1939, The Economic Botany of the Kiowa Indians, Cambridge MA. Botanical Museum of Harvard University, page 28 |
12289 | Delphinium geraniifolium Rydb. 1250 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 307 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used ceremonially. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 307 |
12300 | Delphinium nuttallianum Pritz ex Walp. 1254 | Shuswap 233 | palmer75 92 | 65 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Used with roses and scattered by small girls in the Corpus Christi ceremony in the church. | Palmer, Gary, 1975, Shuswap Indian Ethnobotany, Syesis 8:29-51, page 65 |
12301 | Delphinium nuttallianum Pritz. ex Walp. 1255 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 27 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Petals and other blue flowers ground and used ceremonially. | 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 27 |
12308 | Delphinium scaposum Greene 1257 | Hopi 95 | f96 72 | 16 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Petals and seeds ground into a very fine blue meal prescribed for the Flute altar. | Fewkes, J. Walter, 1896, A Contribution to Ethnobotany, American Anthropologist 9:14-21, page 16 |
12309 | Delphinium scaposum Greene 1257 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 308 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Plant used ceremonially. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 308 |
12313 | Delphinium scaposum Greene 1257 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 47 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Pollen used extensively in many ceremonies. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 47 |
12316 | Delphinium scaposum Greene 1257 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 27 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Petals and other blue flowers ground and used ceremonially. | 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 27 |
12322 | Delphinium tenuisectum Greene 1260 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 27 | Other 3 | Ceremonial Items 30 | Petals and other blue flowers ground and used ceremonially. | 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 27 |
12513 | Digitalis purpurea L. 1299 | Hoh 94 | 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 |
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