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A compilation of 454 plants listed by family classification with usage data collected from about 75 Iroquois authorities. . . . Recipes for preparation, modes of application, and dosages are given for most of the plants, many illustrated line drawings. . . . Recommended for ethnobotanical collections.--Choice An important new contribution to Native American scholarship. It contains signifi-cant new information which was previously unavailable. It gives new insight into Iroquois curing practices and concepts of health and well being and presents details of the uses of medicinal plants never before published.--Richard L. Ford, University of Michigan

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James W. Herrick lectures in anthropology, sociology, psychology, and gerontology, and studied under William N. Fenton. He and his family live in Chittenango, New York. Dean R. Snow is professor of Anthropology at the University at Albany, SUNY, where he has directed the Mohawk Valley Project. He is the author of The Archaeology of North America and co-author of Atlas of Ancient America.

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