| 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 |