Anacardiaceae Rhus trilobata Nutt.

Skunkbush Sumac

Navajo, Ramah - Dye, Black

Use documented by:
Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 35

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Scientific name: Rhus trilobata Nutt.
USDA symbol: RHTRT (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Skunkbush Sumac
Family: Anacardiaceae
Family (APG): Anacardiaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Dye
Use sub-category: Black
Notes: Leaves boiled to dye basketry and wool black.

RECRD: 10558 id: 33216

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