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How Indians use wild plants for food, medicine, and crafts (formerly titled Uses of Plants by the Chippewa Indians) Frances Densmore.
Penn Museum Library E99.C6 D415 1974
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957.
- Standardized Title:
- Uses of plants by the Chippewa Indians
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ojibwa Indians.
- Ethnobotany--North America.
- Ethnobotany.
- North America.
- Indians of North America--Food.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Medicine.
- Penn Provenance:
- Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 279-397 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 36 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dover Publications, Inc., [1974]
- Summary:
- Ethnologist with the Smithsonian Institution offers a wealth of material on nearly 200 plants used by Chippe-was of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Emphasis on wild plants and lesser-known uses. 33 plates plus
- Notes:
- "This Dover edition, first published in 1974, is an unabridged republication of an accompanying paper, 'Uses of Plants by Chippewa Indians,' (pages 275-397) in the 'Forty-fourth Annual Report of the Breau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1926-1927', as originally published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, in 1928."
- "The page and plate reference numbers in this edition conform to those of the original publication of this article in the 'Forty-fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology'. Pages 1 through 274 of that 'Report' were devoted to entirely different subjects and were not written by Miss Densmore. Her article is complete in this volume."--Note on the Pagination.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.
- ISBN:
- 0486230198 :
- OCLC:
- 940463
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