| Quercus wislizeni A. DC. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIW |
Luiseno Food, Staple Stored acorns pounded in a mortar and pestle to make a flour. Several methods were used to remove the bitterness from the acorn meal. The meal 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 soak away 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 193 |
| Quercus wislizeni A. DC. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIW |
Luiseno Food, Substitution Food Acorns used only when more preferred species could not be obtained. Sparkman, Philip S., 1908, The Culture of the Luiseno Indians, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234, page 193 |
| Quercus wislizeni A. DC. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIW |
Luiseno Food, Winter Use Food Acorns formerly stored in acorn granaries. 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 |
| Quercus wislizeni A. DC. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIW |
Miwok Drug, Cough Medicine Decoction of bark taken as a cough medicine. Barrett, S. A. and E. W. Gifford, 1933, Miwok Material Culture, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 2(4):11, page 172 |
| Quercus wislizeni A. DC. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIW |
Miwok Drug, Dermatological Aid Pulverized, outer bark dusted on running sores and particularly used for babies with sore umbilicus. Barrett, S. A. and E. W. Gifford, 1933, Miwok Material Culture, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 2(4):11, page 172 |
| Quercus wislizeni A. DC. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIW |
Miwok Drug, Pediatric Aid Pulverized, outer bark dusted on running sores and particularly used for babies with umbilicus. Barrett, S. A. and E. W. Gifford, 1933, Miwok Material Culture, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 2(4):11, page 172 |
| Quercus wislizeni A. DC. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIW |
Miwok Food, Bread & Cake Acorns ground into a meal and used to make bread and biscuits. Barrett, S. A. and E. W. Gifford, 1933, Miwok Material Culture, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 2(4):11, page 142 |
| Quercus wislizeni A. DC. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIW |
Miwok Food, Porridge Acorns considered a staple food and used to make mush. Barrett, S. A. and E. W. Gifford, 1933, Miwok Material Culture, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 2(4):11, page 142 |
| Quercus wislizeni A. DC. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIW |
Miwok Food, Soup Acorns ground into a meal and used to make soup. Barrett, S. A. and E. W. Gifford, 1933, Miwok Material Culture, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 2(4):11, page 142 |
| Quercus wislizeni A. DC. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIW |
Miwok Food, Winter Use Food Whole acorns stored for winter use. Barrett, S. A. and E. W. Gifford, 1933, Miwok Material Culture, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 2(4):11, page 142 |
| Quercus wislizeni A. DC. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIW |
Neeshenam Food, Unspecified Acorns occasionally used for food. Powers, Stephen, 1874, Aboriginal Botany, Proceedings of the California Academy of Science 5:373-9., page 374 |
| Quercus wislizeni A. DC. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIW |
Tubatulabal Food, Unspecified Acorns used extensively for food. Voegelin, Ermine W., 1938, Tubatulabal Ethnography, Anthropological Records 2(1):1-84, page 15 |
| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Diegueno Food, Porridge Acorns shelled, pounded, leached and cooked into a mush or gruel. Hedges, Ken, 1986, Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany, San Diego Museum of Man Ethnic Technology Notes, No. 20, page 33 |
| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Kawaiisu Drug, Antirheumatic (Internal) Decoction of inner bark taken for arthritis. Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 56 |
| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Kawaiisu Drug, Burn Dressing Ground plant applied to burns. Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 56 |
| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Kawaiisu Fiber, Basketry Branches used to make rims for twined work baskets. Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 56 |
| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Kawaiisu Fiber, Building Material Logs used in house construction. Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 56 |
| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Kawaiisu Food, Bread & Cake Acorns made into a fine meal, cooked into a mush and allowed to stand and harden into a 'cake.' Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 56 |
| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Kawaiisu Food, Staple Acorns dried, pounded, sifted into a fine meal and leached. Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 56 |
| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Kawaiisu Food, Winter Use Food Acorns stored for future use. Acorns were stored in several different ways. The granaries, elevated about a foot above the ground to keep out rodents, were made of hardwood poles, usually oak, with sides, top and bottom covered with bark and lined with gray California buckwheat leaves. Stone lined pits were covered with brush, acorns were piled on a large flat stone and covered with bark. Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 56 |
| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Kawaiisu Other, Fasteners Acorn meal used to mend cracks in clay pots. Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 56 |
| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Kawaiisu Other, Toys & Games Acorn cupule used to make a top for children. Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 56 |
| Quercus ?pauciloba Rydb. (pro sp.) [gambelii ? turbinella] Wavyleaf Oak USDA QUPA4 |
Navajo, Kayenta Drug, Sedative Plant used for nervousness. Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 18 |
| Quercus ?pauciloba Rydb. (pro sp.) [gambelii ? turbinella] Wavyleaf Oak USDA QUPA4 |
Apache, Western Food, Unspecified Acorns eaten whole and raw, ground on a metate or boiled. Buskirk, Winfred, 1986, The Western Apache: Living With the Land Before 1950, Norman. University of Oklahoma Press, page 174 |
| Quercus ?pauciloba Rydb. (pro sp.) [gambelii ? turbinella] Wavyleaf Oak USDA QUPA4 |
Apache, White Mountain Food, Beverage Acorns used to make 'coffee.' Reagan, Albert B., 1929, Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona, Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61., page 148 |
| Quercus ?pauciloba Rydb. (pro sp.) [gambelii ? turbinella] Wavyleaf Oak USDA QUPA4 |
Apache, White Mountain Food, Bread & Cake Acorns ground into flour and used to make bread. Reagan, Albert B., 1929, Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona, Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61., page 148 |
| Quercus ?pauciloba Rydb. (pro sp.) [gambelii ? turbinella] Wavyleaf Oak USDA QUPA4 |
Apache, White Mountain Food, Unspecified Acorns eaten raw. Reagan, Albert B., 1929, Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona, Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61., page 148 |
| Quercus ?pauciloba Rydb. (pro sp.) [gambelii ? turbinella] Wavyleaf Oak USDA QUPA4 |
Apache, White Mountain Other, Hide Preparation Bark used to tan skins. Reagan, Albert B., 1929, Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona, Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61., page 160 |
| Quercus ?pauciloba Rydb. (pro sp.) [gambelii ? turbinella] Wavyleaf Oak USDA QUPA4 |
Gosiute Food, Unspecified Acorns used only in season for food. Chamberlin, Ralph V., 1911, The Ethno-Botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah, Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association 2(5):331-405., page 378 |
| Quercus ?pauciloba Rydb. (pro sp.) [gambelii ? turbinella] Wavyleaf Oak USDA QUPA4 |
Navajo Fiber, Furniture Wood used to make batten sticks and bows for the baby's cradle. Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 41 |
| Quercus ?pauciloba Rydb. (pro sp.) [gambelii ? turbinella] Wavyleaf Oak USDA QUPA4 |
Navajo Other, Tools Wood used to make batten sticks and bows for the baby's cradle. Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 41 |
| Quercus ?pauciloba Rydb. (pro sp.) [gambelii ? turbinella] Wavyleaf Oak USDA QUPA4 |
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Analgesic Decoction of root bark taken for internal pains. 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 22 |
| Quercus ?pauciloba Rydb. (pro sp.) [gambelii ? turbinella] Wavyleaf Oak USDA QUPA4 |
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Analgesic Decoction of root bark used for internal pains. 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 22 |
| Quercus ?pauciloba Rydb. (pro sp.) [gambelii ? turbinella] Wavyleaf Oak USDA QUPA4 |
Navajo, Ramah Dye, Black Charcoal used as a black pigment for sand paintings. 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 22 |
| Quercus ?pauciloba Rydb. (pro sp.) [gambelii ? turbinella] Wavyleaf Oak USDA QUPA4 |
Navajo, Ramah Food, Unspecified Acorns used for food. 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 22 |
| Quercus ?pauciloba Rydb. (pro sp.) [gambelii ? turbinella] Wavyleaf Oak USDA QUPA4 |
Navajo, Ramah Other, Protection Used to protect new or ceremonial hogans from lightning, ghosts and witches. 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 22 |