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Plants used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona
Wisconsin archaeologist • 8 • Published In 1929 • Pages: 143-161 [retyped HRAF MS: i, 19 leaves]
By: Reagan, Albert B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This short article describes some of the uses made by the Western Apache of plant resources. Most of the attention is devoted to plants used for food, drink, medicine, and in some of their material items. The second half of the article provides an alphabetic listing (far from exhaustive) by scientific nomenclature of the plants and their uses.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Flora
- Preservation and storage of food
- Food preparation
- Diet
- Ethnobotany
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Western Apache
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- 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
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1901-1902
- 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)
- White Mountain Apache region, east central Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Albert B. Reagan
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 05040828
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Western Apache Indians