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Juglans cinerea L.
Butternut
USDA JUCI
Menominee Dye, Black
Bark boiled with blue clay to obtain a deep black color.
Smith, Huron H., 1923, Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:1-174, page 78
Juglans cinerea L.
Butternut
USDA JUCI
Menominee Dye, Brown
Juice of nut husk used as a brown dye for deerskin shirts.
Smith, Huron H., 1923, Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:1-174, page 78
Juglans cinerea L.
Butternut
USDA JUCI
Menominee Food, Unspecified
Used in the same way that the white man did.
Smith, Huron H., 1923, Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:1-174, page 68
Juglans cinerea L.
Butternut
USDA JUCI
Meskwaki Drug, Cathartic
Decoction of twig bark or decoction of wood and bark taken as a cathartic.
Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 224
Juglans cinerea L.
Butternut
USDA JUCI
Meskwaki Food, Winter Use Food
Nuts stored for winter use.
Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 259
Juglans cinerea L.
Butternut
USDA JUCI
Micmac Drug, Cathartic
Bark used as a purgative.
Chandler, R. Frank, Lois Freeman and Shirley N. Hooper, 1979, Herbal Remedies of the Maritime Indians, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1:49-68, page 57
Juglans cinerea L.
Butternut
USDA JUCI
Ojibwa Dye, Brown
Nut hulls used as best brown dye, because it was attained from the tree at any time of the year. Butternut was usually used in other combinations for brown and black colors.
Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 425
Juglans cinerea L.
Butternut
USDA JUCI
Ojibwa Food, Unspecified
Nuts used for food.
Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 405
Juglans cinerea L.
Butternut
USDA JUCI
Potawatomi Drug, Cathartic
Bark used as a physic and infusion of inner bark taken as a tonic.
Smith, Huron H., 1933, Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230, page 60, 61
Juglans cinerea L.
Butternut
USDA JUCI
Potawatomi Drug, Tonic
Infusion of inner bark taken as a tonic and bark used as a physic.
Smith, Huron H., 1933, Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230, page 60, 61
Juglans cinerea L.
Butternut
USDA JUCI
Potawatomi Food, Winter Use Food
Butternuts gathered for their edible quality and furnished a winter supply of food.
Smith, Huron H., 1933, Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230, page 103
Quercus macrocarpa Michx.
Bur Oak
USDA QUMAM
Chippewa Dye, Black
Inner bark boiled with green hazel burs, added to black earth and butternut and used as a black dye.
Densmore, Frances, 1928, Uses of Plants by the Chippewa Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #44:273-379, page 372