| Larix occidentalis Nutt. Western Larch USDA LAOC |
Thompson Food, Unspecified Gum chewed for pleasure. Steedman, E.V., 1928, The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522, page 493 |
| Larix occidentalis Nutt. Western Larch USDA LAOC |
Thompson Other, Paint Pitch burned until dry to make a reddish pigment and used as a face paint for women and men. Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, page 99 |