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Juncus mertensianus Bong.
Mertens' Rush
USDA JUME3 		Luiseno Fiber, Basketry
Rushes used to make woven and twined baskets.
Sparkman, Philip S., 1908, The Culture of the Luiseno Indians, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234, page 204
Juncus mertensianus Bong.
Mertens' Rush
USDA JUME3 		Luiseno Other, Containers
Rushes made into woven or twined baskets and used as gathering containers for acorns and cacti.
Sparkman, Philip S., 1908, The Culture of the Luiseno Indians, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234, page 204
Juncus mertensianus Bong.
Mertens' Rush
USDA JUME3 		Luiseno Other, Cooking Tools
Rushes made into woven and twined baskets and used as sifters or to leach acorn meal.
Sparkman, Philip S., 1908, The Culture of the Luiseno Indians, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234, page 204
Juncus mertensianus Bong.
Mertens' Rush
USDA JUME3 		Okanagan-Colville Drug, Witchcraft Medicine
Plant used for 'witchcraft' or 'plhax.'
Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 38