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Name: Adhesive

Description:
Pitch is used as an adhesive.

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Name: Anchors

Description:
Used to anchor traps and snares.

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Name: Arrows

Description:
Arrow points and shafts

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Name: Arrows

Description:
Made from the long straight branches.

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Name: Baskets

Description:
The needles are used in pine-needle baskets.

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Name: Baskets

Description:
Wood and fibers for baskets

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Name: Baskets

Description:
It is one of a group of fibrous plants managed for its use in making baskets.

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Name: Beverage

Description:
The berries ground up and mixed with water as beverage

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Name: Bird Snare

Description:
By many Pueblo peoples, the sturdy dried stalks were used as bird snares.

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Name: Bows

Description:
The branches are used.

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Name: Cast broken bones

Description:
Paste of roots used.

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Name: Ceremonial Rattles

Description:
At one time, the dried fruits of this species were manufactured into ceremonial rattles.

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Name: Ceremonial/Crop Fertility

Description:
Sprigs of the plant are carried, along with corn, by the female dancers during the enactment of the “Coming of the Corn Maidens” ( Stevenson 53) At corn planting time, sprigs of sage are sprinkled for blessings for fertility to come. ( Stevenson 54)

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Name: Coffee substitute

Description:
Dried roots a ground and sifted and prepared like regular coffee beverages.

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Name: Construction

Description:
The wood is used for house construction.

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Name: Cradleboards

Description:
Unknown

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Name: Cradles

Description:
Unknown

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Name: Digging sticks

Description:
Used to dig roots of various plants.

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Name: Dolls

Description:
The Hopi use the trees for carving Katsina dolls.

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Name: Drums

Description:
The trees trunks are preferred by Puebloan drum makers.

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