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Besides being sources of food, plants provided heat, shelter, transportation, clothing, implements, nets, ropes and containers - the necessities of life - for the First Peoples of British Columbia and adjacent territories. They also made good decorations and ornaments, scents, cleansing agents, insect repellents, and many other items.

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Anyone interested in ethnographic, archeological, biogeographical, botanical, and economic aspects of people's relationship with the land, should read this book. Although technically a handbook providing clear and detailed botanical data, its incorporation of concepts involving people's use of plants make this volume more. It breaks new ground in that, unlike many ethnobiological studies that concentrate on food or medicine, this book addresses the understudied technological uses of plants, such as their use in the construction of houses, kitchen utensils, fishing gear, bedding and storage containers. Maria G. Fadiman, Southeastern Geographer Vol. 46

Plant Technology of the First Peoples of British

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      Publisher: Royal British Columbia Museum
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/09/1998
      ISBN13: 9780772658470, 978-0772658470
      ISBN10: 0772658471
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      Book Synopsis
      Besides being sources of food, plants provided heat, shelter, transportation, clothing, implements, nets, ropes and containers - the necessities of life - for the First Peoples of British Columbia and adjacent territories. They also made good decorations and ornaments, scents, cleansing agents, insect repellents, and many other items.

      Trade Review
      Anyone interested in ethnographic, archeological, biogeographical, botanical, and economic aspects of people's relationship with the land, should read this book. Although technically a handbook providing clear and detailed botanical data, its incorporation of concepts involving people's use of plants make this volume more. It breaks new ground in that, unlike many ethnobiological studies that concentrate on food or medicine, this book addresses the understudied technological uses of plants, such as their use in the construction of houses, kitchen utensils, fishing gear, bedding and storage containers. Maria G. Fadiman, Southeastern Geographer Vol. 46

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