#dentalia — Public Fediverse posts
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#Nuuchahnulth #FirstNation #NativePeoples made broom #tools for collecting #dentalia shells. The #shells were a form of #currency (Pojar and Mackinnon, 2004). Branches used to spread/cook salmon & hanging salmon for drying/smoking (Daris and Gonzalves, 2009). #Seeds were used in teas to treat diarrhea (Meuninck, 2016, 147). Nancy Turner noted #hardhack bark was used to make #Womens #medicine, as a source of #aspirin (Hebda and Turner, 2017).