Amaranthus albus L. Prostrate Pigweed USDA AMAL |
Apache, Chiricahua & Mescalero Food, Bread & Cake Seeds winnowed, 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 48 |
Amaranthus albus L. Prostrate Pigweed USDA AMAL |
Apache, Chiricahua & Mescalero Food, Unspecified Eaten without preparation or cooked with green chile and meat or animal bones. 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 46 |
Amaranthus albus L. Prostrate Pigweed USDA AMAL |
Apache, White Mountain Food, Unspecified Seeds used for food. Reagan, Albert B., 1929, Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona, Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61., page 155 |
Amaranthus albus L. Prostrate Pigweed USDA AMAL |
Cochiti Food, Vegetable Young plants eaten as greens. 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 16 |
Amaranthus albus L. Prostrate Pigweed USDA AMAL |
Navajo Other, Ceremonial Items Used, with many different plants, to smoke for lewdness, which was performed at the Coyote Chant. Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 45 |
Amaranthus albus L. Prostrate Pigweed USDA AMAL |
Navajo, Ramah Food, Staple Threshed seeds ground into flour. 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 25 |