daatcaanʾkaaʾ1spec.bracken fernPteridium aquilinumroots (rhyzomes) are split into flat bands which are blackened by chewing or burying in mud for about a week, then used as black strands in some ("cheaper") baskets (Chesnut, p.304)
leaves are used as temporary, to-hand surface-protectors and covers for all sorts of applications, such as lining cooking pits and ovens, lining baskets when picking berries, covering acorn meal do distribute water poured on for leaching, etc.cnstkʾaiʾ2basket1.5.3.1Fern5.2.3.1.5Food from roots6.6.4.2.3Basketry materials2gen.fern1.5.3.1Fernpossiblydaatcaankʾaaʾcomp. ofdaatcaangʾraven/crow√KAAʾ1rootda:tca:n'-q'a:'da:chwingq'a', da:chwingq'ay' "a type of fern (Pteridium aquiliunum) [sic]"Source forms: dah-chahn´-kah
leaves are used as temporary, to-hand surface-protectors and covers for all sorts of applications, such as lining cooking pits and ovens, lining baskets when picking berries, covering acorn meal do distribute water poured on for leaching, etc.cnstkʾaiʾ2basket1.5.3.1Fern5.2.3.1.5Food from roots6.6.4.2.3Basketry materials2gen.fern1.5.3.1Fernpossiblydaatcaankʾaaʾcomp. ofdaatcaangʾraven/crow√KAAʾ1rootda:tca:n'-q'a:'da:chwingq'a', da:chwingq'ay' "a type of fern (Pteridium aquiliunum) [sic]"Source forms: dah-chahn´-kah
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