B. Compton

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Upper North Wakashan and Southern Tsimshian ethnobotany: the knowledge and usage of plants and fungi among the Oweekeno, Hanaksiala (Kitlope and Kemano), Haisla (Kitamaat) and Kitasoo Peoples of the…
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Ethnobotany of the Gitksan Indians of British Columbia
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NINETEENTH CENTURY SHAMAN GRAVE GUARDIANS ARE CARVED FOMITOPSIS OFFICINALIS SPOROPHORES
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Spirit figures placed on shaman graves were carved in the 19th century from large sporophores of the fungus Fomitopsis officinalis to demonstrate the supernatural prestige that forest fungi held among the Indigenous Peoples of the Northwest Coast.
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Secwepemc (Shuswap) tree names: key to the past?
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Puffballs from the past: identification of gasteromycetes from a Lillooet archaeological site and speculation regarding their aboriginal use
Court article sur des bolas mises au jour dans des fosses de maisons de differentes periodes historiques. Il s'agit d'un site indiquant une nourriture de type aborigene avec des artefacts montrant…
100 YEARS OF PALEONTOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT SALTVILLE, VIRGINIA
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The ethnobotany of the pawpaw, Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal
" GHOST ' S EARS " ( Exobasidium sp . affin . vaccinii ) AND FOOL ' S HUCKLEBERRIES ( Menziesia ferruginea Smith ) : A UNIQUE REPORT OF MYCOPHAGY ON THE CENTRAL AND NORTH COASTS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
-The cultural roles of mycocecidia (fungal galls) of the fungus Exobasidium sp. affin. vaccinii on Menziesia ferruginea Smith (false azalea, or fool's huckleberry) among various Pacific northwest…
The North Wakashan “wild carrots”: clarification of some ethnobotanical ambiguity in Pacific Northwest Apiaceae
  • B. Compton
  • Environmental Science
    Economic Botany
  • 1 July 1993
Various “wild carrots” of the family Apiaceae have been mentioned in ethnographic and ethnobotanical literature that noted their dietary and medicinal roles among indigenous cultures of the Pacific…
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MASTODONS, VERTEBRATE TAPHONOMY AND NUTRIENT CYCLING AT THE GRAY FOSSIL SITE
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