Celastraceae Mortonia scabrella Gray

Rio Grande Saddlebush

Havasupai - Other, Hunting & Fishing Item

Use documented by:
Weber, Steven A. and P. David Seaman, 1985, Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture, Tucson. The University of Arizona Press, page 230

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Scientific name: Mortonia scabrella Gray
USDA symbol: MOSE (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Rio Grande Saddlebush
Family: Celastraceae
Family (APG): Celastraceae
Native American Tribe: Havasupai
Use category: Other
Use sub-category: Hunting & Fishing Item
Notes: Wood used to make the foreshaft on the reed arrow.

RECRD: 7307 id: 23462

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