Solanum fendleri Gray ex Torr. Fendler's Horsenettle USDA SOFEF |
Apache, Chiricahua & Mescalero Food, Bread & Cake Plant dried, stored, ground into flour and used to make bread. Castetter, Edward F. and M. E. Opler, 1936, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest III. The Ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(5):1-63, page 42 |
Solanum fendleri Gray ex Torr. Fendler's Horsenettle USDA SOFEF |
Apache, White Mountain Fiber, Building Material Used for thatching. Reagan, Albert B., 1929, Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona, Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61., page 160 |
Solanum fendleri Gray ex Torr. Fendler's Horsenettle USDA SOFEF |
Keresan Food, Starvation Food Raw potatoes mixed with clay or boiled with clay and eaten only in times of extreme scarcity. White, Leslie A, 1945, Notes on the Ethnobotany of the Keres, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters 30:557-568, page 562 |
Solanum fendleri Gray ex Torr. Fendler's Horsenettle USDA SOFEF |
Navajo Drug, Carminative Raw tubers taken for gastric distress from hyperacidity. Hocking, George M., 1956, Some Plant Materials Used Medicinally and Otherwise by the Navaho Indians in the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, El Palacio 56:146-165, page 163 |
Solanum fendleri Gray ex Torr. Fendler's Horsenettle USDA SOFEF |
Navajo Drug, Gastrointestinal Aid Raw tubers taken for gastric distress from hyperacidity. Hocking, George M., 1956, Some Plant Materials Used Medicinally and Otherwise by the Navaho Indians in the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, El Palacio 56:146-165, page 163 |
Solanum fendleri Gray ex Torr. Fendler's Horsenettle USDA SOFEF |
Pueblo Food, Unspecified Tubers eaten. Castetter, Edward F., 1935, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest I. Uncultivated Native Plants Used as Sources of Food, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(1):1-44, page 51 |
Solanum fendleri Gray ex Torr. Fendler's Horsenettle USDA SOFEF |
Sia Food, Vegetable Potatoes eaten raw or cooked with clay to counteract the astringency. White, Leslie A., 1962, The Pueblo of Sia, New Mexico, XXX SI-BAE Bulletin #, page 107 |
Solanum fendleri Gray ex Torr. Fendler's Horsenettle USDA SOFEF |
Zuni Food, Unspecified Raw tubers used for food. After every mouthful of potato, a bite of white clay was taken to counteract the unpleasant astringent effect of the potato in the mouth. Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 71 |