Indian use of wild plants for crafts, food, medicine, and charms / by Frances Densmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957.

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Indian reprints, 0828-3605.

Indian reprints, 0828-3605

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ojibwa Indians--Ethnobotany.

Ojibwa Indians.

Ethnobotany--North America.

Ethnobotany.

Indians of North America--Ethnobotany.

Indians of North America.

North America.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

pages 277-397, [36] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Ohsweken, Ont. : Iroqrafts, 1993.

Contents:

Medicinal properties of plants used by the Chippewa

Principal active medicinal constituents of plants used by the Chippewa

Plants as food

Plants as medicine

Plants used in dyes

Plants used as charms

Plants used in useful and decorative arts

Legend of Winabojo and the birch tree

Legend of Winabojo and the cedar tree

Gathering birch bark and cedar bark

Articles made of birch bark.

Notes:

Iroqcrafts Catalogue Number 24-00304.

"October, 1993"

Reprint of Uses of plants by the Chippewa Indians from the 44th annual report (1926/27) of the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology.

"This reprint follows the pagination and plate numbering of the original Smithsonian publication. Plates 1-27 and pages 1-274 contain material not connected with Miss Denmore's [sic] paper here presented in its entirety."

Includes bibliographical references (page 368).

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:

091964516X

9780919645165

OCLC:

607318708