Taxaceae Taxus brevifolia Nutt.

Pacific Yew

Kwakiutl, Southern - Other, Tools

Use documented by:
Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1973, The Ethnobotany of the Southern Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, Economic Botany 27:257-310, page 285

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Scientific name: Taxus brevifolia Nutt.
USDA symbol: TABR2 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Pacific Yew
Family: Taxaceae
Family (APG): Taxaceae
Native American Tribe: Kwakiutl, Southern
Use category: Other
Use sub-category: Tools
Notes: Used to make curved digging sticks for prying wild clover roots.

RECRD: 46982 id: 39500

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