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Some plants used by the Yuki Indians of Round Valley, northern California
Southwest Museum • (27) • Published In 1957 • Pages: 20
By: Curtin, L. S. M. (Leonora Scott Muse), Irwin, Margaret C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document describes some of the plants used by the Yuki Indians of Round Valley, California, primarily in terms of their use as medicines, and foods, but with application to other aspects of the culture (i.e., in basketry, use for arrows, pipes, etc.). The author describes the scientific binominal for each plant used, its native name, and methods of preparing the plant as a food stuff or as medicine. Curtin used native informants to obtain his information and was assisted in the field by Margaret C. Irwin, a former staff member of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Flora
- Food preparation
- Diet
- Recreational and non-therapeutic drugs
- Pharmaceuticals
- Medical therapy
- Ethnobotany
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yuki
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1954
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1954
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Round Valley, Mendocino County, California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by L.S.M. Curtin ; historical review and photos by Margaret C. Irwin
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 58003454
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yuki Indians