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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes ▲ | rawsource |
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26942 | Picea glauca (Moench) Voss 2934 | Iroquois 100 | r45i 116 | 83 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Wood used to make scrub brushes. | Rousseau, Jacques, 1945, Le Folklore Botanique De L'ile Aux Coudres, Contributions de l'Institut botanique l'Universite de Montreal 55:75-111, page 83 |
27091 | Picea mariana (P. Mill.) B.S.P. 2935 | Iroquois 100 | r45i 116 | 83 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Wood used to make scrub brushes. | Rousseau, Jacques, 1945, Le Folklore Botanique De L'ile Aux Coudres, Contributions de l'Institut botanique l'Universite de Montreal 55:75-111, page 83 |
26375 | Philadelphus lewisii Pursh 2875 | Cowlitz 53 | g73 25 | 31 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Wood used to make combs. | Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 31 |
26380 | Philadelphus lewisii Pursh 2875 | Lummi 129 | g73 25 | 31 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Wood used to make combs. | Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 31 |
26412 | Philadelphus lewisii Pursh 2875 | Thompson 259 | steed28 33 | 499 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Wood used to make combs. | Steedman, E.V., 1928, The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522, page 499 |
32124 | Quercus garryana Dougl. ex Hook. 3265 | Cowlitz 53 | g73 25 | 27 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Wood used to make combs. | Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 27 |
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 |
39519 | Taxus brevifolia Nutt. 3902 | Oweekeno 181 | c93 14 | 75 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Wood used to make combs. | 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 75 |
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 |
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 |
39457 | Taxus brevifolia Nutt. 3902 | Cowlitz 53 | g73 25 | 16 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Used to make combs. | Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 16 |
39540 | Taxus brevifolia Nutt. 3902 | Quinault 210 | g73 25 | 16 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Used to make combs. | Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 16 |
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 |
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 |
7333 | Betula sp. 585 | Malecite 134 | sd52 78 | 6 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Used to make brooms. | Speck, Frank G. and R.W. Dexter, 1952, Utilization of Animals and Plants by the Malecite Indians of New Brunswick, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 42:1-7, page 6 |
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 |
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 |
23520 | Muhlenbergia pungens Thurb. 2541 | Hopi 95 | f96 72 | 16 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Used to make a hair brush and broom. | Fewkes, J. Walter, 1896, A Contribution to Ethnobotany, American Anthropologist 9:14-21, page 16 |
23545 | Muhlenbergia sp. 2544 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 25 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Used in the making of brushes and brooms. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 25 |
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 |
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 |
43998 | Yucca baileyi var. navajoa (J.M. Webber) J.M. Webber 4226 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 370 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Twigs used to make snow brooms. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 370 |
27015 | Picea glauca (Moench) Voss 2934 | Tanana, Upper 255 | k85 36 | 2 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Twigs used by young menstruating girls to clean their teeth and to scratch their heads with. | Kari, Priscilla Russe, 1985, Upper Tanana Ethnobotany, Anchorage. Alaska Historical Commission, page 2 |
11218 | Corylus americana Walt. 1110 | Meskwaki 139 | smith28 21 | 267 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Twigs made into brushes for cleaning the earthen floors of the wigwams. | Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 267 |
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 |
14094 | Eriogonum nudum Dougl. ex Benth. 1520 | Miwok 144 | bg33 100 | 161 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Twigs and leaves used as a brush to clear ground under manzanita bushes before knocking off berries. | Barrett, S. A. and E. W. Gifford, 1933, Miwok Material Culture, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 2(4):11, page 161 |
30245 | Prunus americana Marsh. 3160 | Dakota 61 | g19 17 | 87 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Tough, elastic twigs bound into bundles and used as brooms for sweeping the floor. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 87 |
30281 | Prunus americana Marsh. 3160 | Omaha 177 | g19 17 | 87 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Tough, elastic twigs bound into bundles and used as brooms for sweeping the floor. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 87 |
30292 | Prunus americana Marsh. 3160 | Ponca 205 | g19 17 | 87 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Tough, elastic twigs bound into bundles and used as brooms for sweeping the floor. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 87 |
30297 | Prunus americana Marsh. 3160 | Winnebago 280 | g19 17 | 87 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Tough, elastic twigs bound into bundles and used as brooms for sweeping the floor. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 87 |
12029 | Dalea purpurea var. purpurea 1226 | Pawnee 190 | g19 17 | 94 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Tough, elastic stems made into brooms and used to sweep the lodge. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 94 |
37667 | Senecio flaccidus var. douglasii (DC.) B.L. Turner & T.M. Barkl. 3642 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 88 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Tops used as brooms to brush the spines from cactus fruit. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 88 |
7592 | Bromus sp. 640 | Isleta 101 | j31 76 | 25 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Tied bunches of stems used to make brooms and brushes. | Jones, Volney H., 1931, The Ethnobotany of the Isleta Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 25 |
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 |
7536 | Brickellia ambigens (Greene.) A. Nels. 623 | Keres, Western 107 | swank32 79 | 33 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Tied bunches of plants used as rough brooms. | Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 33 |
7556 | Brickellia grandiflora (Hook.) Nutt. 627 | Keres, Western 107 | swank32 79 | 33 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Tied bunches of plants used as rough brooms. | Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 33 |
7590 | Bromus marginatus Nees ex Steud. 639 | Keres, Western 107 | swank32 79 | 34 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Tied bunches of plants used as hair brushes and light brooms. | Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 34 |
26063 | Perideridia kelloggii (Gray) Mathias 2833 | Yuki 287 | c57ii 69 | 91 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Strong, fibrous roots used to make hair brushes. | Curtin, L. S. M., 1957, Some Plants Used by the Yuki Indians ... II. Food Plants, The Masterkey 31:85-94, page 91 |
38800 | Sporobolus wrightii Munro ex Scribn. 3810 | Apache, Chiricahua & Mescalero 11 | co36 95 | 40 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Stiff stems made into a brush and used to clean spines of cacti. | 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 40 |
16975 | Hesperostipa spartea (Trin.) Barkworth 1858 | Omaha 177 | g19 17 | 66 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Stiff awns firmly bound into a bundle and the pointed grains burned off to make a hairbrush. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 66 |
16977 | Hesperostipa spartea (Trin.) Barkworth 1858 | Pawnee 190 | g19 17 | 66 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Stiff awns firmly bound into a bundle and the pointed grains burned off to make a hairbrush. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 66 |
16979 | Hesperostipa spartea (Trin.) Barkworth 1858 | Ponca 205 | g19 17 | 66 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Stiff awns firmly bound into a bundle and the pointed grains burned off to make a hairbrush. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 66 |
26394 | Philadelphus lewisii Pursh 2875 | Paiute 183 | m53 98 | 77 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Sticks split and used as hair combs. | Mahar, James Michael., 1953, Ethnobotany of the Oregon Paiutes of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Reed College, B.A. Thesis, page 77 |
23522 | Muhlenbergia pungens Thurb. 2541 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 26 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Stems, pulled out of their sheaths when dry, tied with string and used as brooms and brushes. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 26 |
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 |
23513 | Muhlenbergia cuspidata (Torr. ex Hook.) Rydb. 2536 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 25 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Stems used to make hair brushes and brooms for sweeping out the hogan. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 25 |
16276 | Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt. & Rusby 1786 | Comanche 48 | cj40 147 | 522 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Stems used to make brooms. | 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 522 |
9817 | Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus (Hook.) Nutt. 935 | Yavapai 284 | g36 48 | 257 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Stems used to brush off spines on fruits. | Gifford, E. W., 1936, Northeastern and Western Yavapai, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 34:247-345, page 257 |
14159 | Eriogonum sp. 1530 | Yavapai 284 | g36 48 | 257 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Stems used to brush off spines on fruits. | Gifford, E. W., 1936, Northeastern and Western Yavapai, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 34:247-345, page 257 |
42318 | Vaccinium parvifolium Sm. 4085 | Karok 105 | sg52 71 | 388 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Stems and twigs used to make brooms. | Schenck, Sara M. and E. W. Gifford, 1952, Karok Ethnobotany, Anthropological Records 13(6):377-392, page 388 |
7428 | Bouteloua gracilis (Willd. ex Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths 608 | Apache, Western 14 | b86 87 | 189 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Stem used as comb and broom material. | Buskirk, Winfred, 1986, The Western Apache: Living With the Land Before 1950, Norman. University of Oklahoma Press, page 189 |
6807 | Baccharis sarothroides Gray 536 | Pima 193 | c49 11 | 65 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Stalks used to make brooms. | Curtin, L. S. M., 1949, By the Prophet of the Earth, Sante Fe. San Vicente Foundation, page 65 |
39122 | Symphoricarpos albus var. albus 3850 | Yokia 285 | c02 89 | 389 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Slender twigs bound together and used as brooms for sweeping. | Chestnut, V. K., 1902, Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California, Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium 7:295-408., page 389 |
14710 | Fallugia paradoxa (D. Don) Endl. ex Torr. 1604 | Tewa 257 | rhf16 61 | 46 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Slender branches bound together and used as brooms for rough outdoor sweeping. | Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 46 |
39137 | Symphoricarpos occidentalis Hook. 3854 | Montana Indian 151 | b05 73 | 24 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Shrubs made into brooms. | Blankinship, J. W., 1905, Native Economic Plants of Montana, Bozeman. Montana Agricultural College Experimental Station, Bulletin 56, page 24 |
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 |
20095 | Leymus condensatus (J. Presl) A. L”ve 2161 | Paiute 183 | m53 98 | 51 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Roots tied together and used as hair combs. | Mahar, James Michael., 1953, Ethnobotany of the Oregon Paiutes of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Reed College, B.A. Thesis, page 51 |
26061 | Perideridia kelloggii (Gray) Mathias 2833 | Pomo, Kashaya 202 | gl80 40 | 89 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Roots bundled together to make a hair brush or scrub brush. | Goodrich, Jennie and Claudia Lawson, 1980, Kashaya Pomo Plants, Los Angeles. American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, page 89 |
26052 | Perideridia kelloggii (Gray) Mathias 2833 | Mendocino Indian 137 | c02 89 | 372 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Rigid, root fibers made into compact cylindrical brushes and used 'for combs.' | Chestnut, V. K., 1902, Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California, Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium 7:295-408., page 372 |
19299 | Koeleria macrantha (Ledeb.) J.A. Schultes 2077 | Cheyenne 33 | h81 57 | 10 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Plants used as paint brushes to paint ceremonial participants. | Hart, Jeffrey A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 4:1-55, page 10 |
37546 | Scirpus sp. 3614 | Houma 96 | speck41 49 | 60 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Plants dried and used to make brooms. | Speck, Frank G., 1941, A List of Plant Curatives Obtained From the Houma Indians of Louisiana, Primitive Man 14:49-75, page 60 |
37750 | Serenoa repens (Bartr.) Small 3655 | Seminole 228 | s54 88 | 504 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Plant used to make brushes. | Sturtevant, William, 1954, The Mikasuki Seminole: Medical Beliefs and Practices, Yale University, PhD Thesis, page 504 |
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 |
43997 | Yucca baileyi var. navajoa (J.M. Webber) J.M. Webber 4226 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 370 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Plant used for paint brushes. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 370 |
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 |
4861 | Aristida purpurea var. longiseta (Steud.) Vasey 371 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 286 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Plant used for broom material. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 286 |
5167 | Artemisia dracunculus L. 395 | Pawnee 190 | g19 17 | 134 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Plant tops bound into bundles and made into brooms used for sweeping the lodge floor. The plant was used for this purpose because of its agreeable, wholesome odor. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 134 |
37663 | Senecio flaccidus var. douglasii (DC.) B.L. Turner & T.M. Barkl. 3642 | Hopi 95 | f96 72 | 19 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Plant top used as a brush to remove spines from the prickly pears. | Fewkes, J. Walter, 1896, A Contribution to Ethnobotany, American Anthropologist 9:14-21, page 19 |
37666 | Senecio flaccidus var. douglasii (DC.) B.L. Turner & T.M. Barkl. 3642 | Navajo 157 | f96 72 | 19 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Plant top used as a brush to remove spines from the prickly pears. | Fewkes, J. Walter, 1896, A Contribution to Ethnobotany, American Anthropologist 9:14-21, page 19 |
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 |
9740 | Chlorogalum pomeridianum (DC.) Kunth 922 | Round Valley Indian 214 | c02 89 | 336 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Outer fibers made into brushes and used to scrape meal off the ground. | Chestnut, V. K., 1902, Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California, Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium 7:295-408., page 336 |
44186 | Yucca glauca Nutt. 4230 | Tewa 257 | rhf16 61 | 52 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Narrow slips used as paint brushes in decorating pottery. | Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 52 |
42336 | Vaccinium parvifolium Sm. 4085 | Poliklah 199 | m66 109 | 173 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Long, straight, green branches used for brooms. | Merriam, C. Hart, 1966, Ethnographic Notes on California Indian Tribes, University of California Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley, page 173 |
44175 | Yucca glauca Nutt. 4230 | Southwest Indians 248 | bc41 58 | 49 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Leaves used as brushes to place designs upon pottery. | Bell, Willis H and Edward F. Castetter, 1941, Ethnobiological Studies in the Southwest VII. The Utilization of of Yucca, Sotol and Beargrass by the Aborigines in the American Southwest, University of New Mexico Bulletin 5(5):1-74, page 49 |
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 |
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 |
44192 | Yucca glauca Nutt. 4230 | Zuni 291 | s15 6 | 82 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Leaves made into brushes & used for decorating pottery, ceremonial masks, alters and other objects. | Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 82 |
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 |
43761 | Yucca angustissima Engelm. ex Trel. 4224 | Hopi 95 | bc41 58 | 50 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Leaf splints used as brushes to apply color to pottery. | Bell, Willis H and Edward F. Castetter, 1941, Ethnobiological Studies in the Southwest VII. The Utilization of of Yucca, Sotol and Beargrass by the Aborigines in the American Southwest, University of New Mexico Bulletin 5(5):1-74, page 50 |
44095 | Yucca glauca Nutt. 4230 | Hopi 95 | bc41 58 | 50 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Leaf splints used as brushes to apply color to pottery. | Bell, Willis H and Edward F. Castetter, 1941, Ethnobiological Studies in the Southwest VII. The Utilization of of Yucca, Sotol and Beargrass by the Aborigines in the American Southwest, University of New Mexico Bulletin 5(5):1-74, page 50 |
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 |
24017 | Nolina microcarpa S. Wats. 2590 | Isleta 101 | j31 76 | 35 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Leaf fibers used to make brushes. | Jones, Volney H., 1931, The Ethnobotany of the Isleta Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 35 |
6806 | Baccharis sarothroides Gray 536 | Pima 193 | c49 11 | 65 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Green stalks cut, tied together with strings and used as brooms. | Curtin, L. S. M., 1949, By the Prophet of the Earth, Sante Fe. San Vicente Foundation, page 65 |
1863 | Agave sp. 96 | Yavapai 284 | g36 48 | 259 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Grass stem brush used to transfer excess mescal juice from dish to slab. | Gifford, E. W., 1936, Northeastern and Western Yavapai, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 34:247-345, page 259 |
25458 | Panicum capillare L. 2738 | Tewa 257 | rhf16 61 | 64 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Grass made into brooms and used to clean metates and metate boxes. | Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 64 |
7423 | Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr. 606 | Tewa 257 | rhf16 61 | 64 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Grass bundled, dried, made into brooms and used to sweep floors, hearths and metates. | Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 64 |
7422 | Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr. 606 | Tewa 257 | rhf16 61 | 64 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Grass bundled, dried and used as hair brushes. | Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 64 |
7447 | Bouteloua gracilis (Willd. ex Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths 608 | Zuni 291 | s15 6 | 83 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Grass bunches tied together and the severed end used as a hairbrush, the other as a broom. | Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 83 |
16974 | Hesperostipa spartea (Trin.) Barkworth 1858 | Omaha 177 | g13ii 154 | 324 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Grains bound with sinew and used to make combs or hairbrushes. The grains were firmly bound with sinew, the points being broken or burned off, the grains forming the teeth, the awns bent back, making the attachment for combs or hairbrushes. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1913, A Study in the Ethnobotany of the Omaha Indians, Nebraska State Historical Society Collections 17:314-57., page 324 |
38751 | Spiraea splendens var. splendens 3796 | Blackfoot 23 | h74 26 | 123 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Flowering stems used as paint brushes, especially on the large spaces of tipis. | Hellson, John C., 1974, Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 123 |
11224 | Corylus americana Walt. 1110 | Ojibwa 173 | smith32 20 | 417 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Finer twigs bound into a bundle, with the tips sheared, to serve as a broom or brush. | Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 417 |
9706 | Chlorogalum pomeridianum (DC.) Kunth 922 | Costanoan 50 | b84 16 | 255 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Fibrous bulb covers tied in bundles to make brushes. | Bocek, Barbara R., 1984, Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington, Economic Botany 38(2):240-255, page 255 |
43840 | Yucca baccata Torr. 4225 | Isleta 101 | j31 76 | 45 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Fibers used to make small brushes for pottery decoration. | Jones, Volney H., 1931, The Ethnobotany of the Isleta Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 45 |
44098 | Yucca glauca Nutt. 4230 | Isleta 101 | j31 76 | 45 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Fibers used to make brushes for pottery decoration. | Jones, Volney H., 1931, The Ethnobotany of the Isleta Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 45 |
1784 | Agave lechuguilla Torr. 92 | Pima 193 | bc41 58 | 50 | Fiber 4 | Brushes & Brooms 93 | Fiber used to make hair brushes. | Bell, Willis H and Edward F. Castetter, 1941, Ethnobiological Studies in the Southwest VII. The Utilization of of Yucca, Sotol and Beargrass by the Aborigines in the American Southwest, University of New Mexico Bulletin 5(5):1-74, page 50 |
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