Asteraceae Psilostrophe tagetina (Nutt.) Greene

Woolly Paperflower

Zuni - Other, Ceremonial Items

Use documented by:
Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 97

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Scientific name: Psilostrophe tagetina (Nutt.) Greene
USDA symbol: PSTAT (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Woolly Paperflower
Family: Asteraceae
Family (APG): Asteraceae
Native American Tribe: Zuni
Use category: Other
Use sub-category: Ceremonial Items
Notes: Blossoms used by personators of anthropic gods for painting masks and for coloring bodies yellow. The blossoms were used by personators of anthropic gods for painting masks and for coloring their limbs and bodies yellow. The flowers were ground into a meal and mixed with yellow ocher and urine.

RECRD: 32992 id: 31347

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