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Some notes on uses of plants by the Comanche Indians
Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science Arts and Letters • 25 • Published In 1939 • Pages: 517-542
By: Carlson, Gustav G., Jones, Volney H. (Volney Hurt).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of plant material collected by Carlson during the summer of 1933 while a fellow of the Laboratory of Anthropology of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The findings are summarized in a long table, while the text elucidates the table and gives comparisons with other Indian groups in North America. The basic uses of the plants were for food and medicine.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethnobotany
- Diet
- Pharmaceuticals
- Medical therapy
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Comanche
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Plains and Plateau
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Ethnobotanist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1933
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southwestern United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Gustav G. Carlson and Volney H. Jones
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 541-542)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 23011028
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Comanche Indians