Botany of the Squamish Indian people of British Columbia
Culture:
Squamish includes: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Sko-ko-mish
Date: 1976
Contributor: Bouchard, Randy | Turner, Nancy J., 1947-
Subject: Anthropology | Linguistics | Salishan languages | Botany | Ethnography | Food | Medicine | Folklore | Social life and customs | Ecology | Botany | Plants | British Columbia--History
Type: Still Image | Text
Genre: Monographs | Illustrations | Essays
Extent: 179 pages
Description: This paper, co-authored by Nancy J. Turner and Randall (Randy) T. Bouchard, gives the comparative linguistic transcriptions of the native plant names, the botanical identification, and the common English-language names of the plant species, as well as their utilization as food or in technology, medicine, or mythology. Includes photographs. See also the other volumes in the same series in the APS collections: Bouchard and Dorothy I. D. Kennedy's "Knowledge and usage of land mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, and amphibians by the Squamish Indian people of British Columbia" (1976) (Mss.970.6.K38.k); and Bouchard and Kennedy's "Utilization of fish, beach foods, and marine mammals by the Squamish Indian people of British Columbia" (1976) (Mss.970.6.K38). These publications were disseminated by the British Columbia Language Project.
Collection: Botany of the Squamish Indian people of British Columbia Mss.970.6.B66