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Western Navajo ethnobotanical notes
Navajo religion and culture: selected views • (17) • Published In 1982 • Pages: 89-97
By: Brugge, David M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source presents an ethnobotanical listing of various plants known and used by the Navajo in the Arizona-New Mexico area. The samples used were herbarium specimens from Keams Canyon, Arizona -- part of an exhibit used in a courtroom hearing involving a Hopi-Navajo boundary dispute. The specimens were identified separately by two Navajos -- Scott Preston and Clyde Peshlakai -- and their results compared for reliability. The list, arranged in alphabetical order, contains eighty-nine items -- a small sample of the total flora growing in the region -- but it does contain much useful information on a number of native pharmaceuticals, drugs, foods, animal forage crops, and dye-stuffs.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Flora
- Ethnobotany
- Pharmaceuticals
- Paint and dye manufacture
- Diet
- Domesticated animals
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Navajo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Government Employee
- 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 ; 1986
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1960
- 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)
- Keams Canyon area, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- David M. Brugge
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 97)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81086446
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians