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Indian uses of native plants / Edith Van Allen Murphey.
LIBRA - Blank Collection T98.B7 M8 1990 Blank copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphey, Edith Van Allen, 1879-1968.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Ethnobotany--West (U.S.).
- Indians of North America.
- Ethnobotany--West (U.S.).
- Ethnobotany.
- Anthropology, Cultural.
- Indians, North American.
- Medicine, Traditional.
- Plants.
- United States.
- Indians of North America--Ethnobotany.
- West United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Anthropology, Cultural.
- Indians, North American.
- Medicine, Traditional.
- Plants.
- United States.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- [14], 81, [1] pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Glenwood, Ill. : Meyerbooks, Publisher, 1990.
- Contents:
- Basketry
- Indian foods
- Famine foods
- Beverages
- Feasts
- Greens
- Meat
- Nuts
- Seeds
- The salt journey
- Medicinal plants
- Ceremonials and magic
- Bows and arrows
- Dye plants
- Tanning hides
- Odds and ends
- Hair
- Tepees
- Tobacco
- Dictionary.
- Notes:
- Cover illustration by Clarence Meyer.
- Line drawing of plants by Mrs. Ella M. Hanks.
- Reprint. Originally published 1959. With updated dictionary and new indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- ISBN:
- 0916638154
- 9780916638153
- OCLC:
- 317439204
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