Juglans cinerea L. Butternut USDA JUCI |
Menominee Dye, Black Bark boiled with blue clay to obtain a deep black color. Smith, Huron H., 1923, Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:1-174, page 78 |
Juglans cinerea L. Butternut USDA JUCI |
Menominee Dye, Brown Juice of nut husk used as a brown dye for deerskin shirts. Smith, Huron H., 1923, Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:1-174, page 78 |
Juglans cinerea L. Butternut USDA JUCI |
Menominee Food, Unspecified Used in the same way that the white man did. Smith, Huron H., 1923, Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:1-174, page 68 |
Juglans cinerea L. Butternut USDA JUCI |
Meskwaki Drug, Cathartic Decoction of twig bark or decoction of wood and bark taken as a cathartic. Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 224 |
Juglans cinerea L. Butternut USDA JUCI |
Meskwaki Food, Winter Use Food Nuts stored for winter use. Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 259 |
Juglans cinerea L. Butternut USDA JUCI |
Micmac Drug, Cathartic Bark used as a purgative. Chandler, R. Frank, Lois Freeman and Shirley N. Hooper, 1979, Herbal Remedies of the Maritime Indians, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1:49-68, page 57 |
Juglans cinerea L. Butternut USDA JUCI |
Ojibwa Dye, Brown Nut hulls used as best brown dye, because it was attained from the tree at any time of the year. Butternut was usually used in other combinations for brown and black colors. Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 425 |
Juglans cinerea L. Butternut USDA JUCI |
Ojibwa Food, Unspecified Nuts used for food. Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 405 |
Juglans cinerea L. Butternut USDA JUCI |
Potawatomi Drug, Cathartic Bark used as a physic and infusion of inner bark taken as a tonic. Smith, Huron H., 1933, Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230, page 60, 61 |
Juglans cinerea L. Butternut USDA JUCI |
Potawatomi Drug, Tonic Infusion of inner bark taken as a tonic and bark used as a physic. Smith, Huron H., 1933, Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230, page 60, 61 |
Juglans cinerea L. Butternut USDA JUCI |
Potawatomi Food, Winter Use Food Butternuts gathered for their edible quality and furnished a winter supply of food. Smith, Huron H., 1933, Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230, page 103 |
Quercus macrocarpa Michx. Bur Oak USDA QUMAM |
Chippewa Dye, Black Inner bark boiled with green hazel burs, added to black earth and butternut and used as a black dye. Densmore, Frances, 1928, Uses of Plants by the Chippewa Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #44:273-379, page 372 |