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Additional Description: The following lists (on following pages) include fifty plants gathered by Swinomish in their own territory, and in addition, three species that were obtained in trade from Upper Skagit Indians. These lists were compiled from original field notes taken by Sally Snyder and from Erna Gunther, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, UWPA, vol. 10, N0.1, pp.1-62, Oct. 1945, Seattle, Wn. Plants used strictly for medicinal purposes are not listed on the next sheets. Many plants included in the following pages, however, were used medicinally as well. These are nettle, wild rose, willow, wild cherry, spirea, alder, hemlock, white fir, black cap, cranberry, old growth timber pitch, western yew, licorice fern, hazelnut, fireweed, red huckleberry, blue huckleberry, broadleaf maple, blackberry, salmonberry, Oregon grape, vine maple, wild gooseberry, crabapple, cedar, spruce, thimbleberry, skunk cabbage, and salal. In addition to those are death camas, cascara, flowering dogwood, sword fern, orange honeysuckle, Rocky Mountain juniper, snowberry, thistle, water-lily, dandelion, barberry, madrona, rock-weed, rainflower, ‘puff-ball’ (fam. Lycopeodaceae), wild pea, wild onion, trailing currant, arum, sweet cicely, and sixteen unidentified plants giving a total of thirty-five plants used exclusively for medicinal purposes. Some plants of the Swinomish pharmacopoeia were common knowledge to all, but a number were owned individually as secret lore accompanied by verbal formula, being one aspect of the ritual complex termed in the Skagit dialect xaca:dəd or sy’wi’D. A few non-botanical medicinal products were also employed. They include clay, human urine, shark-oil, and certain glands of skunk and garden snails.
Date: June 1955
Related resource: These lists were compiled from original field notes taken by Sally Snyder and from Erna Gunther, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, UWPA, vol. 10, N0.1, pp.1-62, Oct. 1945, Seattle, Wn
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