Book
Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians
National Museums of Canada • (19) • Published In 1974 • Pages: iii, 138
By: Hellson, John C..
Abstract
This monograph describes the use of nearly 100 botanical species in Blackfoot Indian culture. The authors' classification of plants has the merit of taxonomical exactness and yet is presented from a Blackfoot point of view which stresses the application rather than systemization of botanical knowledge. It is thus an indispensable guide, best consulted along with other, more ethnographically detailed sources, to plants as used in Blackfoot religion and ceremony, birth control, medicine, horse medicine, diet, crafts, and folklore. The researcher is alerted to numerous typographical and spelling errors in this source, including terms of Linnean binomial nomenclature.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1999
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Plains and Plateau
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Ethnologist
- Natural Scientist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- M. A. Marcus ; J. Beierle ; 1982
- Field Date
- ca. 1970-1973
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- Alberta, Canada; Montana, United States
- Notes
- John C. Hellson
- Abstract in French
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-129)
- LCCN
- 75331774
- LCSH
- Siksika Indians