| Gossypium hirsutum L. Upland Cotton USDA GOHIH2 |
Pima, Gila River Food, Unspecified Seeds used for food. Rea, Amadeo M., 1991, Gila River Pima Dietary Reconstruction, Arid Lands Newsletter 31:3-10, page 5 |
| Gossypium hirsutum L. Upland Cotton USDA GOHIH2 |
Zuni Fiber, Clothing Cotton used to make ceremonial garments. Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 77 |
| Gossypium hirsutum L. Upland Cotton USDA GOHIH2 |
Zuni Fiber, Cordage Fuzz made into cords and used ceremonially. Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 92 |
| Gossypium hirsutum L. Upland Cotton USDA GOHIH2 |
Zuni Other, Ceremonial Items Cotton used to make ceremonial garments. Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 77 |
| Gossypium hirsutum L. Upland Cotton USDA GOHIH2 |
Zuni Other, Ceremonial Items Fuzz used alone or made into cords and used ceremonially in a number of ways. The cotton cords were tied loosely around the wrists and ankles of the newborn child while supplications were offered that the rain makers would provide enough rain to insure proliferative crops so that the child would have full nourishment its whole life. Cotton down was used to cover the heads of rain priests after their deaths symbolizing their duties in this world and also their obligations in the undermost world. Crowns and certain masks were also covered with raw cotton to indicate that the gods represented were rain makers or were specially associated with the rain makers. Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 92 |
| Gossypium hirsutum var. hirsutum Levant Cotton USDA GOHIH2 |
Koasati Drug, Gynecological Aid Decoction of roots taken to ease childbirth. Taylor, Linda Averill, 1940, Plants Used As Curatives by Certain Southeastern Tribes, Cambridge, MA. Botanical Museum of Harvard University, page 42 |
| Gossypium sp. Cotton |
Havasupai Other, Fuel Used as a strike-a-light. Spier, Leslie, 1928, Havasupai Ethnography, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 29(3):101-123, 284-285, page 105 |
| Gossypium sp. Cotton |
Havasupai Other, Tools Cotton twisted into thread, braided into a thick cord and used in the strike-a-light. Weber, Steven A. and P. David Seaman, 1985, Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture, Tucson. The University of Arizona Press, page 231 |
| Gossypium sp. Cotton |
Isleta Fiber, Clothing Cotton used to make belts, sashes and red bands for the hair. Jones, Volney H., 1931, The Ethnobotany of the Isleta Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 30 |
| Gossypium sp. Cotton |
Navajo Fiber, Cordage Used to make string for many different ceremonies. Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 62 |
| Gossypium sp. Cotton |
Navajo Fiber, Sewing Material Used to make fabrics. Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 62 |
| Gossypium sp. Cotton |
Navajo Other, Tools Twisted, soaked in mutton tallow and used as a lampwick for soldering. Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 62 |
| Gossypium sp. Cotton |
Papago Food, Bread & Cake Seed flour mixed with saguaro seed flour, baked on sand and eaten as browned cakes. Castetter, Edward F. and Ruth M. Underhill, 1935, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest II. The Ethnobiology of the Papago Indians, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(3):1-84, page 46 |
| Gossypium sp. Cotton |
Papago Food, Bread & Cake Seeds made into flour and baked on hot sands as browned cakes. Castetter, Edward F. and Ruth M. Underhill, 1935, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest II. The Ethnobiology of the Papago Indians, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(3):1-84, page 37 |
| Gossypium sp. Cotton |
Pima Food, Dried Food Seeds formerly parched and eaten without grinding. Russell, Frank, 1908, The Pima Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #26:1-390, page 77 |
| Gossypium sp. Cotton |
Santa Clara Other, Ceremonial Items Formerly used to weave large ceremonial blankets. Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 102 |
| Gossypium sp. Cotton |
Tewa Drug, Dermatological Aid Poultice of chewed kernels applied to child's head for baldness. Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 102103 |
| Gossypium sp. Cotton |
Tewa Drug, Pediatric Aid Poultice of chewed kernels applied to child's head for baldness. Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 102103 |
| Gossypium sp. Cotton |
Tewa of Hano Other, Ceremonial Items Used to make the strings for prayer feathers. Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 102 |
| Gossypium thurberi Todaro Thurber's Cotton USDA GOTH |
Papago Fiber, Unspecified Used as a source of fiber. Castetter, Edward F. and Willis H. Bell, 1942, Pima and Papago Indian Agriculture, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. First Edition., page 106 |