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Uses of native plants in early Mormon country (abstract)
Forms upon the frontier: folklife and folk arts in the United States • 16 (2) • Published In 1969 • Pages: 132-137
By: Andersen, Berniece A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This brief source discusses the Mormons' use of plants for wood, food, drink and medicine when they first arrived in Utah. It provides both common and scientific names for the plants mentioned.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Flora
- Collecting
- Preservation and storage of food
- Diet
- Pharmaceuticals
- Lumbering
- Medical therapy
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mormons
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2018
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Botanist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Martin Malone ; Eleanor Swanson ; 1978
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1847-1857
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Utah, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Berniece A. Andersen
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79628747
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mormons