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Hordeum jubatum L.
Foxtail Barley
USDA HOJUJ
Chippewa Drug, Eye Medicine
Dry root wrapped, moistened and used as a compress for sties or inflammation of lid.
Densmore, Frances, 1928, Uses of Plants by the Chippewa Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #44:273-379, page 360
Hordeum jubatum L.
Foxtail Barley
USDA HOJUJ
Iroquois Other, Toys & Games
Used by children to place in the sleeves of playmates as a joke.
Rousseau, Jacques, 1945, Le Folklore Botanique De L'ile Aux Coudres, Contributions de l'Institut botanique l'Universite de Montreal 55:75-111, page 106
Hordeum jubatum L.
Foxtail Barley
USDA HOJUJ
Kawaiisu Food, Unspecified
Seeds pounded and eaten dry.
Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 34
Hordeum jubatum L.
Foxtail Barley
USDA HOJUJ
Kawaiisu Other, Tools
Used to rub the skin off yucca stalks.
Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 34
Hordeum jubatum L.
Foxtail Barley
USDA HOJUJ
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Poison
Plant considered poisonous and children taught to avoid it.
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 16
Hordeum jubatum L.
Foxtail Barley
USDA HOJUJ
Potawatomi Drug, Unspecified
Root used for unspecified ailments.
Smith, Huron H., 1933, Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230, page 59