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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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2557 | 172 | 166 | 3 | 243 | 3 | 168 | 'If you see a creek without alder along its banks, the water isn't good to drink.' | Gill, Steven J., 1983, Ethnobotany of the Makah and Ozette People, Olympic Peninsula, Washington (USA), Washington State University, Ph.D. Thesis, page 243 |
2670 | 176 | 259 | 10 | 188 | 3 | 168 | Plants used as water indicators. | 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 188 |
6581 | 498 | 175 | 32 | 18 | 3 | 168 | Ferns considered to be a sign of water when travelling through the mountains. | 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 18 |
14804 | 1626 | 101 | 76 | 29 | 3 | 168 | Large shrubs considered water indicators because wells dug where plants grew always produced water. | Jones, Volney H., 1931, The Ethnobotany of the Isleta Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 29 |
16366 | 1790 | 175 | 32 | 18 | 3 | 168 | Ferns considered to be a sign of water when travelling through the mountains. | 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 18 |
16444 | 1799 | 149 | 97 | 87 | 3 | 168 | Crotched sticks used to locate underground water or buried treasure. | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1972, Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission Anthropological Papers #3, page 87 |
20619 | 2219 | 175 | 32 | 91 | 3 | 168 | Plant used as a charm to make it rain. | 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 91 |
22312 | 2394 | 149 | 97 | 87 | 3 | 168 | Crotched sticks used to locate underground water. | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1972, Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission Anthropological Papers #3, page 87 |
22997 | 2475 | 107 | 79 | 54 | 3 | 168 | Plant used as an indication of surface water. | Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 54 |
30274 | 3160 | 149 | 97 | 87 | 3 | 168 | Crotched sticks used to locate underground water. | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1972, Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission Anthropological Papers #3, page 87 |
31488 | 3214 | 175 | 32 | 18 | 3 | 168 | Ferns considered to be a sign of water when travelling through the mountains. | 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 18 |
37064 | 3573 | 105 | 71 | 386 | 3 | 168 | Plant grew near good luck water. This plant grew naturally in swamps. It was believed that even if you found it in a dry place, if you searched you would find water near by. The water bubbled up in a little hole and disappeared again soon. This was good luck water. When a woman was making baskets, she went to it, if she knew where it was and washed her hands. Then she would have good luck in making her baskets and perhaps would sell them at a high price. When people were gambling, they would go and wash their hands in a 'lucky water.' If you found a lucky water, you would not tell anyone, but would keep it secret, so that no unclean person would go near it. | Schenck, Sara M. and E. W. Gifford, 1952, Karok Ethnobotany, Anthropological Records 13(6):377-392, page 386 |
43568 | 4194 | 175 | 32 | 18 | 3 | 168 | Ferns considered to be a sign of water when travelling through the mountains. | 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 18 |