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21 rows where use_subcategory = 83 sorted by source
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- Wood used to smoke fish. 2
- Bark cooked with rendering fat as a preservative. 1
- Barked split sticks, four inches long, boiled in sturgeon oil to keep the oil fresh during storage. 1
- Berries mixed with elderberries and buried with them for preservation. 1
- Birch bark keeps the food stored in it from spoiling. 1
- Branches used in bottoms of berry baskets and on top of the berries to keep them fresh. 1
- Dry, rotted wood used to make a fire to smoke cure whitefish and moose meat. 1
- Fruit used to make jam and jelly. 1
- Inner bark cooked with buffalo fat as a preservative, to prevent it from becoming rancid. 1
- Leaves pulverized and sprinkled on meats as a preservative. 1
- Leaves used to line buckets when picking blueberries and cover them to prevent spoiling. 1
- Plant used to line the blueberry pail to keep the berries from spoiling. 1
- Plants dried, pulverized and used to preserve meat and berries. 1
- Soft, rotten wood burned to make a slow, smoky fire to smoke cure meat and fish. 1
- Stem, leaf and flower placed inside fish cavity as a preservative. 1
- Used for smoking fish and as a mosquito repellent. 1
- Used with narrow leaf cottonwood to smoke salmon. 1
- Wood used to smoke fish and meat. 1
- Wood used to smoke salmon, eels and deer meat. 1
- Wood used to smoke salmon. 1
id | species | tribe | source ▼ | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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34819 | Rubus parviflorus Nutt. 3463 | Makah 133 | g83 3 | 273 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Fruit used to make jam and jelly. | Gill, Steven J., 1983, Ethnobotany of the Makah and Ozette People, Olympic Peninsula, Washington (USA), Washington State University, Ph.D. Thesis, page 273 |
32849 | Rhododendron albiflorum Hook. 3337 | Thompson 259 | tta90 10 | 216 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Branches used in bottoms of berry baskets and on top of the berries to keep them fresh. | 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 216 |
2503 | Alnus rubra Bong. 172 | Haisla and Hanaksiala 87 | c93 14 | 224 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Wood used to smoke fish and meat. | 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 224 |
41557 | Ulmus rubra Muhl. 4052 | Omaha 177 | g19 17 | 76 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Inner bark cooked with buffalo fat as a preservative, to prevent it from becoming rancid. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 76 |
7241 | Betula papyrifera Marsh. 580 | Ojibwa 173 | smith32 20 | 416 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Birch bark keeps the food stored in it from spoiling. | Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 416 |
10542 | Comptonia peregrina (L.) Coult. 1055 | Ojibwa 173 | smith32 20 | 420 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Leaves used to line buckets when picking blueberries and cover them to prevent spoiling. | Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 420 |
33489 | Ribes divaricatum Dougl. 3368 | Quinault 210 | g73 25 | 32 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Berries mixed with elderberries and buried with them for preservation. | Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 32 |
22508 | Matricaria discoidea DC. 2423 | Flathead 76 | h92 30 | 23 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Plants dried, pulverized and used to preserve meat and berries. | Hart, Jeff, 1992, Montana Native Plants and Early Peoples, Helena. Montana Historical Society Press, page 23 |
23231 | Monarda fistulosa L. 2504 | Flathead 76 | h92 30 | 70 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Leaves pulverized and sprinkled on meats as a preservative. | Hart, Jeff, 1992, Montana Native Plants and Early Peoples, Helena. Montana Historical Society Press, page 70 |
2666 | Alnus viridis ssp. crispa (Ait.) Turrill 176 | Tanana, Upper 255 | k85 36 | 5 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Wood used to smoke fish. | Kari, Priscilla Russe, 1985, Upper Tanana Ethnobotany, Anchorage. Alaska Historical Commission, page 5 |
9314 | Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium 882 | Tanana, Upper 255 | k85 36 | 16 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Used for smoking fish and as a mosquito repellent. | Kari, Priscilla Russe, 1985, Upper Tanana Ethnobotany, Anchorage. Alaska Historical Commission, page 16 |
29663 | Populus tremuloides Michx. 3106 | Tanana, Upper 255 | k85 36 | 5 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Wood used to smoke fish. | Kari, Priscilla Russe, 1985, Upper Tanana Ethnobotany, Anchorage. Alaska Historical Commission, page 5 |
23569 | Myrica gale L. 2557 | Potawatomi 206 | smith33 43 | 121 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Plant used to line the blueberry pail to keep the berries from spoiling. | Smith, Huron H., 1933, Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230, page 121 |
2950 | Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt. ex M. Roemer 204 | Cree, Woodlands 58 | l85 47 | 28 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Barked split sticks, four inches long, boiled in sturgeon oil to keep the oil fresh during storage. | Leighton, Anna L., 1985, Wild Plant Use by the Woods Cree (Nihithawak) of East-Central Saskatchewan, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 28 |
7185 | Betula papyrifera Marsh. 580 | Cree, Woodlands 58 | l85 47 | 32 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Soft, rotten wood burned to make a slow, smoky fire to smoke cure meat and fish. | Leighton, Anna L., 1985, Wild Plant Use by the Woods Cree (Nihithawak) of East-Central Saskatchewan, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 32 |
29597 | Populus tremuloides Michx. 3106 | Cree, Woodlands 58 | l85 47 | 52 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Dry, rotted wood used to make a fire to smoke cure whitefish and moose meat. | Leighton, Anna L., 1985, Wild Plant Use by the Woods Cree (Nihithawak) of East-Central Saskatchewan, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 52 |
847 | Achillea millefolium L. 38 | Klamath 115 | c97 66 | 105 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Stem, leaf and flower placed inside fish cavity as a preservative. | Coville, Frederick V., 1897, Notes On The Plants Used By The Klamath Indians Of Oregon., Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium 5(2):87-110, page 105 |
2461 | Alnus rhombifolia Nutt. 171 | Karok 105 | sg52 71 | 382 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Wood used to smoke salmon, eels and deer meat. | Schenck, Sara M. and E. W. Gifford, 1952, Karok Ethnobotany, Anthropological Records 13(6):377-392, page 382 |
11132 | Cornus sericea ssp. sericea 1102 | Shuswap 233 | palmer75 92 | 61 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Used with narrow leaf cottonwood to smoke salmon. | Palmer, Gary, 1975, Shuswap Indian Ethnobotany, Syesis 8:29-51, page 61 |
36072 | Salix scouleriana Barratt ex Hook. 3547 | Shuswap 233 | palmer75 92 | 68 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Wood used to smoke salmon. | Palmer, Gary, 1975, Shuswap Indian Ethnobotany, Syesis 8:29-51, page 68 |
41556 | Ulmus rubra Muhl. 4052 | Omaha 177 | g13ii 154 | 325 | Food 1 | Preservative 83 | Bark cooked with rendering fat as a preservative. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1913, A Study in the Ethnobotany of the Omaha Indians, Nebraska State Historical Society Collections 17:314-57., page 325 |
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CREATE TABLE uses ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL, species INTEGER NOT NULL, tribe INTEGER NOT NULL, source INTEGER NOT NULL, pageno TEXT NOT NULL, use_category INTEGER, use_subcategory INTEGER, notes TEXT, rawsource TEXT NOT NULL, FOREIGN KEY(use_category) REFERENCES use_categories(id), FOREIGN KEY(use_subcategory) REFERENCES use_subcategories(id), FOREIGN KEY(tribe) REFERENCES tribes(id), FOREIGN KEY(species) REFERENCES species(id), FOREIGN KEY(source) REFERENCES sources(id) );