| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Diegueno Food, Porridge Acorns shelled, pounded, leached and cooked into a mush or gruel. Hedges, Ken, 1986, Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany, San Diego Museum of Man Ethnic Technology Notes, No. 20, page 33 |
| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Kawaiisu Drug, Antirheumatic (Internal) Decoction of inner bark taken for arthritis. Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 56 |
| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Kawaiisu Drug, Burn Dressing Ground plant applied to burns. Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 56 |
| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Kawaiisu Fiber, Basketry Branches used to make rims for twined work baskets. Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 56 |
| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Kawaiisu Fiber, Building Material Logs used in house construction. Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 56 |
| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Kawaiisu Food, Bread & Cake Acorns made into a fine meal, cooked into a mush and allowed to stand and harden into a 'cake.' Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 56 |
| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Kawaiisu Food, Staple Acorns dried, pounded, sifted into a fine meal and leached. Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 56 |
| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Kawaiisu Food, Winter Use Food Acorns stored for future use. Acorns were stored in several different ways. The granaries, elevated about a foot above the ground to keep out rodents, were made of hardwood poles, usually oak, with sides, top and bottom covered with bark and lined with gray California buckwheat leaves. Stone lined pits were covered with brush, acorns were piled on a large flat stone and covered with bark. Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 56 |
| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Kawaiisu Other, Fasteners Acorn meal used to mend cracks in clay pots. Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 56 |
| Quercus wislizeni var. frutescens Engelm. Interior Live Oak USDA QUWIF |
Kawaiisu Other, Toys & Games Acorn cupule used to make a top for children. Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 56 |