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Cahuilla Food, Fruit Fruit considered a great delicacy, important food and a highly prized food source. Bean, Lowell John and Katherine Siva Saubel, 1972, Temalpakh (From the Earth); Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants, Banning, CA. Malki Museum Press, page 119 |
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Costanoan Food, Fruit Fruits eaten for food. Bocek, Barbara R., 1984, Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington, Economic Botany 38(2):240-255, page 249 |
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Costanoan Food, Unspecified Soaked, roasted inner kernels used for food. Bocek, Barbara R., 1984, Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington, Economic Botany 38(2):240-255, page 249 |
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Costanoan Other, Hunting & Fishing Item Wood used for bows. Bocek, Barbara R., 1984, Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington, Economic Botany 38(2):240-255, page 249 |
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Diegueno Drug, Cough Medicine Infusion of leaves taken as a cough medicine. Hinton, Leanne, 1975, Notes on La Huerta Diegueno Ethnobotany, Journal of California Anthropology 2:214-222, page 217 |
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Diegueno Food, Bread & Cake Large seed cracked, the kernel extracted, pounded into a meal and made into patties and roasted. Hedges, Ken, 1986, Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany, San Diego Museum of Man Ethnic Technology Notes, No. 20, page 32 |
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Diegueno Food, Fruit Fruit eaten fresh. Hedges, Ken, 1986, Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany, San Diego Museum of Man Ethnic Technology Notes, No. 20, page 32 |
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Diegueno Food, Fruit Fruit used for food. Hinton, Leanne, 1975, Notes on La Huerta Diegueno Ethnobotany, Journal of California Anthropology 2:214-222, page 217 |
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Diegueno Food, Porridge Seeds ground, leached and used to make atole. Hinton, Leanne, 1975, Notes on La Huerta Diegueno Ethnobotany, Journal of California Anthropology 2:214-222, page 217 |
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Luiseno Food, Fruit Fruit used for food. Sparkman, Philip S., 1908, The Culture of the Luiseno Indians, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234, page 232 |
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Luiseno Food, Fruit Fruit, similar to plums or cherries, formerly used to some extent as food. Sparkman, Philip S., 1908, The Culture of the Luiseno Indians, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234, page 194 |
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Luiseno Food, Porridge Sun dried fruit kernels made into a flour and cooked in an earthen vessel. The sun dried fruit kernels were extracted from the shells, made into a flour and then leached to remove the bitterness. The flour was either leached with hot water, placed in a rush basket and warm water poured over it or placed in a sand hole and warm water poured over it to remove the bitterness. Sparkman, Philip S., 1908, The Culture of the Luiseno Indians, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234, page 194 |
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Luiseno Food, Staple Kernels ground into a flour and used for food. Sparkman, Philip S., 1908, The Culture of the Luiseno Indians, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234, page 232 |
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Luiseno Food, Unspecified Pulp eaten for food. Sparkman, Philip S., 1908, The Culture of the Luiseno Indians, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234, page 194 |
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Mahuna Drug, Cough Medicine Infusion of bark or roots taken for coughs. Romero, John Bruno, 1954, The Botanical Lore of the California Indians, New York. Vantage Press, Inc., page 18 |
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Mahuna Food, Fruit Berries eaten mainly to quench the thirst. Romero, John Bruno, 1954, The Botanical Lore of the California Indians, New York. Vantage Press, Inc., page 70 |