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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource ▼ |
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13658 | Ericameria nauseosa ssp. nauseosa var. nauseosa 1454 | Keres, Western 107 | swank32 79 | 37 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Plant used for rough brooms. | Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 37 |
13714 | Erigeron asper Nutt. 1463 | Keres, Western 107 | swank32 79 | 42 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Tied bunches of plants used for brooms. | Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 42 |
13744 | Erigeron flagellaris Gray 1473 | Keres, Western 107 | swank32 79 | 42 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Tied bunches of plants used for brooms. | Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 42 |
14702 | Fallugia paradoxa (D. Don) Endl. ex Torr. 1604 | Keres, Western 107 | swank32 79 | 44 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Brush used for rough brooms, especially in Acoma. | Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 44 |
11987 | Dalea candida var. oligophylla (Torr.) Shinners 1217 | Keres, Western 107 | swank32 79 | 58 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Plant used for light brooms. | Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 58 |
44110 | Yucca glauca Nutt. 4230 | Keres, Western 107 | swank32 79 | 76 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Chewed leaves used to make brushes for pottery paint. | Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 76 |
9719 | Chlorogalum pomeridianum (DC.) Kunth 922 | Maidu 132 | sk58 162 | 68 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Plant made into brushes and used to sweep meal off the sifting baskets. | Swartz, Jr., B. K., 1958, A Study of Material Aspects of Northeastern Maidu Basketry, Kroeber Anthropological Society Publications 19:67-84, page 68 |
40219 | Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don 3951 | Salish, Coast 217 | tb71 23 | 71 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Wood used to make combs. | 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 71 |
39545 | Taxus brevifolia Nutt. 3902 | Salish, Coast 217 | tb71 23 | 72 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Wood used to make combs. | 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 72 |
40056 | Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don 3951 | Kwakiutl, Southern 122 | tb73 63 | 266 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Shredded bark used for paint brushes. | Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1973, The Ethnobotany of the Southern Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, Economic Botany 27:257-310, page 266 |
39497 | Taxus brevifolia Nutt. 3902 | Kwakiutl, Southern 122 | tb73 63 | 271 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Wood used to make combs. | Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1973, The Ethnobotany of the Southern Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, Economic Botany 27:257-310, page 271 |
41105 | Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.) Carr. 4044 | Thompson 259 | tta90 10 | 111 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Broken boughs used by the handful as a bath brush. | 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 |
8124 | Carex sp. 752 | Thompson 259 | tta90 10 | 114 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Leaves used as brushes for cleaning things. | 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 114 |
38734 | Spiraea douglasii Hook. 3792 | Thompson 259 | tta90 10 | 274 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Branches used to make brooms. | 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 274 |
40142 | Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don 3951 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 20 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Boughs used to scrub the skin in the sweathouse. | 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 |
39077 | Symphoricarpos albus (L.) Blake 3849 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 95 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Branches tied together in a bundle to make a broom. | 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 95 |
23521 | Muhlenbergia pungens Thurb. 2541 | Hopi 95 | vest40 126 | 158 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Used to make brooms. | 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 158 |
4864 | Aristida purpurea var. longiseta (Steud.) Vasey 371 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 15 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Stems used to make hair brushes. | 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 15 |
4865 | Aristida purpurea var. longiseta (Steud.) Vasey 371 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 15 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Stems used to make hair brushes. | 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 15 |
23512 | Muhlenbergia andina (Nutt.) A.S. Hitchc. 2535 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 16 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Stems used to make hair brushes. | 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 16 |
23516 | Muhlenbergia mexicana (L.) Trin. 2539 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 16 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Stems used to make hair brushes. | 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 16 |
26429 | Phleum pratense L. 2879 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 17 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Stems used to make hair brushes. | 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 17 |
43896 | Yucca baccata Torr. 4225 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 21 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Leaf slivers made into paint brushes. | 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 21 |
43897 | Yucca baccata Torr. 4225 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 21 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Leaves made into brushes used for cleaning baskets. | 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 21 |
5680 | Artemisia tridentata Nutt. 407 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 48 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Leafy stems tied together with wire and used for brooms. | 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 |
16360 | Gutierrezia sp. 1787 | Hualapai 97 | w82 127 | 16 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Used as a utilitarian brush to remove stickers off prickly pear fruits and for sweeping the floor. | Watahomigie, Lucille J., 1982, Hualapai Ethnobotany, Peach Springs, AZ. Hualapai Bilingual Program, Peach Springs School District #8, page 16 |
17563 | Hymenoclea sp. 1941 | Hualapai 97 | w82 127 | 47 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Used to make brushes and brooms. | Watahomigie, Lucille J., 1982, Hualapai Ethnobotany, Peach Springs, AZ. Hualapai Bilingual Program, Peach Springs School District #8, page 47 |
1867 | Agave utahensis Engelm. 97 | Havasupai 89 | ws85 2 | 212 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Used to make brushes for the hair and for cleaning grinding stones. To make the brushes, the dried matter of a dead and rotten leaf was knocked free from the fibers, which were then bent in two. The upper end of this brush was wrapped with a cord and the bent portion was covered with buckskin or cloth. The loose fibers were cut to the right length and hardened by burning the ends. | Weber, Steven A. and P. David Seaman, 1985, Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture, Tucson. The University of Arizona Press, page 212 |
379 | Acacia greggii Gray 15 | Havasupai 89 | ws85 2 | 225 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Twigs made into a brush and used to brush off metates. | Weber, Steven A. and P. David Seaman, 1985, Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture, Tucson. The University of Arizona Press, page 225 |
14704 | Fallugia paradoxa (D. Don) Endl. ex Torr. 1604 | Keresan 108 | w45 90 | 558 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Used to make arrows and brooms. | 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 558 |
23519 | Muhlenbergia pungens Thurb. 2541 | Hopi 95 | w39 37 | 65 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Culms stripped of leaves and bound together to form a broom and hair brush. | Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 65 |
9713 | Chlorogalum pomeridianum (DC.) Kunth 922 | Kawaiisu 106 | z81 60 | 19 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Upper fiber ends dipped in starch, tied together and used as brushes. The brush was used in the following ways: (1) to clean out the bedrock mortar hole before tobacco leaves were pounded and to remove the pulverized tobacco afterwards--a usage that probably applied to other materials--(2) to sweep fine meal off the sifting tray; (3) to brush the hair--an old brush must be used for this purpose or 'the hair ends will split'--and (4) when wet, to scrub things clean. | Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 19 |
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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) );