Uses of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains.

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In 1916 anthropologist Gilbert L. Wilson worked closely with Buffalobird-woman, a highly respected Hidatsa born in 1839 on the Fort Berthold Reservation in western North Dakota, for a study of the Hidatsas' uses of local plants. What resulted was a treasure trove of ethnobotanical information t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wilson, Gilbert Livingston
Other Authors: Scullin, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2014.
Subjects:
Hidatsa Indians > Ethnobotany.
Plants, Useful > Great Plains.
Hidatsa Indians > Material culture.
Hidatsa Indians > Gardening.
Indians of North America > Ethnobotany > Great Plains.
Ethnobotany > Great Plains.
Hidatsa > Ethnobotanique.
Plantes utiles > Grandes Plaines.
Hidatsa > Culture matérielle.
Ethnobotanique > Grandes Plaines.
Ethnobotany
Indians of North America > Ethnobotany
Plants, Useful
Great Plains
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In 1916 anthropologist Gilbert L. Wilson worked closely with Buffalobird-woman, a highly respected Hidatsa born in 1839 on the Fort Berthold Reservation in western North Dakota, for a study of the Hidatsas' uses of local plants. What resulted was a treasure trove of ethnobotanical information that was buried for more than seventy-five years in Wilson's archives, now held jointly by the Minnesota Historical Society and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Wilson recorded Buffalobird-woman's insightful and vivid descriptions of how the nineteenth-century Hidatsa people had.
Physical Description:1 online resource (788 pages)
ISBN:9780803267756
0803267754

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