Tanaina plantlore, Dena'ina k'et'una / by Priscilla Russell Kari ; photographs by Priscilla Russell Kari, Boyd and Susan Shaffer ; illustrations by Nancy K. Wise ; map by Karen Pearson.
Record details
- ISBN: 0941555003
- ISBN: 9780941555005
- Physical Description: xiii, 205 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 22 cm
- Edition: 4th ed.
- Publisher: Fairbanks, Alaska : Alaska Native Language Center, Alaska Natural History Association, National Park Service, 1995.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Rev. ed. of: Dena'ina K'et'una Tanaina Plantlore. Anchorage : Adult Literacy Laboratory, University of Alaska, 1977. "Designed and prepared for publication by Lorraine Basner." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-200) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Dena'ina country -- Introduction -- Format -- Sources -- Physical environment -- Seasonal cycle -- Dena'ina use of plants -- Dena'ina beliefs regarding plants -- Dena'ina plant classification -- Trees & shrubs with needle-like leaves -- Broad leafed trees and shrubs with berry-like fruit -- Plants with berry-like fruit -- Grass-like plants -- Some thick-stemmed plants -- Some edible plants and wild sweet pea -- Some medicinal plats -- Other terrestrial plants -- Aquatic plants -- Mosses -- Lichens -- Terrestrial fungi -- Arboreal fungi and black birch burl -- Appendices: Dena'ina alphabet -- Dena'inan plant names and plant products borrowed from Russian -- Flora in Dena'inan place names -- Dena'ina classification of landforms and environments -- bibliography -- Plant index. |
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Subject: | Botany > Dictionaries > Dena'ina language. Plants, Medicinal > Alaska. Plants, Edible > Alaska. Indians, North American > Alaska. Botany > Alaska. Eetbare planten. Indianen. |
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