How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food Medicine & Crafts
Frances Densmore
Language: English
Pages: 90
ISBN: B013J8YC44
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A renowned ethnologist with the Smithsonian Institution offers a fascinating wealth of material on nearly 200 plants that were used by the Chippewas of Minnesota and Wisconsin. The volume provides an emphasis on wild plants and their lesser-known uses. "A fascinating, well-illustrated study." — Grand Rapids Gazette. 33 plates.
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Part of the task. It is said that in old times a hole was dug in the ground and lined with deerskin, the rice being placed in this instead of a barrel. The chaff from this treading was usually kept and cooked similarly to the rice, having much the flavor of the rice, and being considered somewhat of a delicacy. The stored rice was sewn in bags of various sizes, which were somewhat similar in use to the makuks in which maple sugar was stored. On top of the rice was laid straw, and the bags, like.
Eaten like a vegetable; (2) roasted in the ashes; (3) boiled, mashed, and eaten with grease. They were said to be especially good with duck broth. Tilia americana L. Basswood. The sap next the bark was used similarly to the woodbine sirup. A Canadian Chippewa said that he peeled the outside bark from the poplar and also the white birch, and scraped the inner bark, obtaining a little sap which they put in a small makuk. He said that it had a sweetish taste and “ would keep quite a while.”.
The medicine, and who gave various other instructions, such as rest after taking the medicine, or abstinence from food. In a majority of cases it was expected that improvement, though perhaps slight, would be evident after three or four doses had been taken. Remedies were administered externally in the following manner: Fresh roots or leaves were macerated and applied. Dried roots or leaves were pulverized, prepared in the form of a decoction, and applied. Dried roots or leaves were.
---------------- Sweet grass ---------------- Ceremonial, economic and pleasurable. Typha latifolia L ---------------- Cat-tail ---------------- Mats, baskets, etc. Ulmus fulva lVIichx ---------------- Slippery elm---------------- General utility. Urticastrum divaricatum (L.) Kuntze. False nettle ---------------- Twine. Grasps ---------------- Toys. MANNER OF USE Twine was one of the most important articles in the economic life of the Chippewa. It was made chiefly from the inner bark (fiber) of.
It seems fitting to note some of the properties of this substance, which formed so large a factor in the economic life of the Chippewa. First, and most important, is its varied thickness. The heaviest bark, from large trees, comprises six to nine distinct layers and is so strong that it could be made into canoes carrying many persons. The thinnest birch bark is like tissue paper but so tough that it was used in wrapping small packets tied with a thin stand of basswood fiber. (Pl. 43, b.) Between.