Cover of How Indians use wild plants for food, medicine, and crafts.

Book 1974

How Indians use wild plants for food, medicine, and crafts.

8 readers

Publisher
Dover
Language
English
Published
1974
  • Medicinal plants
  • Ojibwa Indians
  • Plants, Useful
  • Ethnobotany
  • Useful Plants
  • Indians of North America
  • Botany, medical
  • Plants, folklore

Reprint of Uses of plants by the Chippewa Indians from the 44th annual report (1926/27) of the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology. Ethnologist with the Smithsonian Institution offers a wealth of material on nearly 200 plants used by Chippewas of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Emphasis on wild plants and lesser-known uses. Emphasis on wild plants and lesser-known uses.