Ethnobotany of the Gitksan Indians of British Columbia
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Ethnobotany of the Gitksan Indians of British Columbia

  1. 218 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Ethnobotany of the Gitksan Indians of British Columbia

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During the 1920s Harlan I. Smith, an archaeologist with the National Museums of Canada, documented plant and animal knowledge and use among the Gitksan, Nuxalk and Ulkatcho Carrier of British Columbia. Smith's work is the earliest, relatively comprehensive ethnobotanical study for any Tsimshianic group. This edited version of his manuscript contains information on 112 botanical species and on their traditional cultural roles among the Gitksan

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Abstract
  3. Résumé
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. The Gitksan People, Their Language, and Their Homeland
  9. Botanical Environment of the Gitksan
  10. Brief Account of Harlan I. Smith's Activities at the National Museum Leading to the Production of "Ethno-botany of the Gitksan Indians of British Columbia"
  11. Smith's Original Manuscript
  12. Part 1. H.I. Smith's "Ethno-botany of the Gitksan Indians of British Columbia"
  13. Part 2. The Gitksan Consultants and Smith's Research Methodology
  14. Additional H.I. Smith Materials on Gitksan Ethnobotany and the Kitwanga Garden of Native Plants
  15. Transcription of the Gitksan Ethnobotanical Lexicon
  16. Botanical Species Collected as Voucher Specimens or Observed and Noted by H.I. Smith
  17. Plants and Fungi Known or Used by the Gitksan
  18. Fungi (Mushrooms and Their Relatives)
  19. Lichens (Lichenized Fungi)
  20. Bryophytes (Mosses and Their Relatives)
  21. Pteridophytes (Ferns and Their Relatives)
  22. Gymnosperms (Conifers and the Taxad, Western Yew)
  23. Angiosperms (Flowering Plants), Dicotyledons
  24. Angiosperms (Flowering Plants), Monocotyledons
  25. Unidentified Species
  26. Discussion, Summary, and Conclusions
  27. Table 1. Summary of botanical species used as food or in food-related applications among the Gitksan
  28. Table 2. Summary of botanical species regarded as animal food among the Gitksan
  29. Table 3. Summary of botanical species used as material for technological and other applications among the Gitksan
  30. Table 4. Summary of botanical species used as medicinal applications among Gitksan
  31. Table 5. Summary of botanical species with ritual or spiritual roles among the Gitksan
  32. Table 6. Summary of botanical species with mythological roles among the Gitksan
  33. Table 7. Summary of botanical species with miscellaneous cultural roles among the Gitksan
  34. Table 8. Summary of botanical species recognized and named among the Gitksan but which lack cultural roles
  35. References
  36. Appendix 1. Writing the Gitksan Language
  37. Appendix 2. Botanical species collected or observed by H.I. Smith in 1925 and 1926
  38. Appendix 3. Taxa reported by H.I. Smith in individual species accounts for which no observations or collections were reported
  39. Appendix 4. Botanical species that lack Gitksan names or uses, but which H.I. Smith included in the main body of his original manuscript
  40. Index