Medicinal flora of the Alaska Natives : a compilation of knowledge from literary sources of Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Yupik traditional healing methods using plants Cover Image

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Medicinal flora of the Alaska Natives : a compilation of knowledge from literary sources of Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Yupik traditional healing methods using plants / by Ann Garibaldi.

Summary:

"This book is a comprehensive collection of traditional plant knowledge gathered from literature sources. It is not intended to be a guide book or 'how-to' for using medicinal plants. It is, however, designed to be a tool for referencing traditional Alaska Native uses of healing with plants and provides baseline data for communities wishing to further enhance their knowledge of cultural plant usage"--p. 1.

Record details

Physical Description: ix, 199 p. : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Publisher: Anchorage, Alaska : Alaska Natural Heritage Program. Environment and Natural Resources Institute. University of Alaska Anchorage, 1999.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-197) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	Trees and shrubs -- Herbs -- Grasses and sedges -- Ferns and fern allies -- Mosses and lichens -- Fungi -- Seaweeds and algae -- Miscellaneous references -- P.S. (postscript information) -- Supporting information.