Rosaceae Cercocarpus montanus Raf.

True Mountain Mahogany

Navajo, Ramah - Dye, Brown

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 30

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Scientific name: Cercocarpus montanus Raf.
USDA symbol: CEMOM4 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: True Mountain Mahogany
Family: Rosaceae
Family (APG): Rosaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Dye
Use sub-category: Brown
Notes: Decoction of root bark used as a brown dye for buckskin and wool.

RECRD: 10518 id: 8960

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