Uses of plants by the Hidatsas of the northern plains / Gilbert Livingston Wilson ; edited and annotated by Michael Scullin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone, 1868-1930, author.

Contributor:

Scullin, Michael, editor, annotator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hidatsa Indians--Ethnobotany.

Hidatsa Indians.

Plants, Useful--Great Plains.

Plants, Useful.

Hidatsa Indians--Material culture.

Hidatsa Indians--Gardening.

Indians of North America--Great Plains--Ethnobotany.

Indians of North America.

Ethnobotany--Great Plains.

Ethnobotany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (788 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, [Nebraska] : University of Nebraska Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1916 anthropologist Gilbert L. Wilson worked closely with Buffalobird-woman, a highly respected Hidatsa born in 1839 on the Fort Berthold Reservation in western North Dakota, for a study of the Hidatsas' uses of local plants. What resulted was a treasure trove of ethnobotanical information that was buried for more than seventy-five years in Wilson's archives, now held jointly by the Minnesota Historical Society and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Wilson recorded Buffalobird-woman's insightful and vivid descriptions of how the nineteenth-century Hidatsa people had

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Editor's Note; 1. Plants That Are Eaten; Domesticated plants; Sunflowers; Corn-smut; Prairie turnips; Jerusalem artichokes; Hogpeanut; Chokecherries; Buffaloberries; Gooseberries; Black currants; Wild grapes; 2. Plants That Can Be Eaten; Hawthorns; Wild white onions; Ball cactus; 3. Plants That Are Sweet; Juneberries; White juneberries; Wild plums; Strawberries; Roses; Red raspberries; Biscuitroot; Nannyberries; Purple prairie clover; 4. Plants That Are Good to Chew; Sticky gum

Pine pitch5. Plants That Smell Good; Purple meadow-rue; Blue giant hyssop; Sweetgrass; Wild bergamot; Pine needles; Perfumes used in beds; Beaver musk; 6. Plants That Have Medicinal Uses; Big medicine; White and red baneberry; Gumweed; Purple coneflower; "Medicine in the woods"; Poison ivy; Unknown grass; Peppermint; 7. Plants Used for Fiber; Dogbane; Upright sedge; Grasswork ornaments on leggings; 8. Plants Used for Smoking; Tobacco 9a; Tobacco 9b; Red-osier dogwood; Bearberry; Bearberry or kinnikinnick; 9. Plants Used for Dye and Coloring; Yellow owl's-clover; Water smartweed

Dye plants-unidentified10. Plants Used for Toys; Umakixeke, or game of throwing sticks; Popguns; A toy horse; Reed whistle; 11. Plants Used for Utilitarian Purposes; Cordgrass; Buckbrush; Cattails; Boxelder; Buffalograss; Big bluestem; Common rush; Scouringrush horsetail; Puffball; Snakewood; Goldenrod; Prairie grasses as fodder; 12. Plants Used for Rituals or with Ritual Significance; The three kinds of sage; Pasture sage 1; Pasture sage 2; Common sagewort; Black sage; Fringed sage; Juniper (Cedar); Creeping juniper; Prairie sandreed; Bittersweet; 13. Sources of Wood; Wood as a resource

CottonwoodAsh; Peachleaf willow; Sandbar willow; Heart-leaved willow; Quaking aspen; American elm; Water birch; Boxelder; 14. Uses of Wood; Gathering firewood; Digging-sticks; Mortar and pestle; Making a bullboat frame; Making a wooden bowl; Rakes (and the bison scapula hoe); Paddle for working clay pots (cottonwood bark); 15. Arrows; Significance and utility; Making arrows; Types of arrows; Bows; Arrows for boys; Mock battle with grass arrows; 16. Earthlodges; Building an earthlodge; On Earthlodges (The observations of Hairy Coat and Not A Woman); Winter lodges and twin lodges

The peaked or tipi-shaped hunting lodgeThe use of sod as an earthlodge covering; Dismantling an old earthlodge; Like-a-Fishhook Village and environs; 17. Miscellaneous Material; Basket making; Native drinks of the Hidatsas; How our meals were served; Nettles; Forest fire; Conclusion; Appendix: Frederick N. Wilson's Comments; Bibliography; About the Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780803267756

0803267754

9780803267749

0803267746

OCLC:

880579870