pey-cho-loo' : pine nut used for Yurok regalia

pk'wo'-o-lo': 

Unsure:

-fish weir

-fish spears

-feather boxes


Maple:

-He-log making

-Hey-gon (man’s)

-Hekwch

-feather boxes?

-bark for skirts


Keehl:

-stool

-boats

-houses

-cooking sticks

-gambling cards

-drum frames

-regalia trunks (boxes)


Madrone:

-cooking wood

-tossles

-for fires (doesn’t produce much smoke)


Manzanita:

-cooking salmon

-cooking eels

-brush dance fires


Hazel:

-basketry

-stick game stick

-eel hooks

-eel baskets

-tie houses together (and grapevine)


Willow:

-basketry - roots/shoots

-pain relief medication


Spruce:

-roots for baskets


Yew (harder than hazel):

-bows

-eel hooks

-gambling cards

-bark used for treatment of cancer (tea)


Port orford Cedar:

-houses (upriver past Kep’el; Karuk use for ‘yoch and stools)


Alder:

-smoking

-bark dying basket materials


Douglas Fir:

-poles used for framing (hide tanning)

-dip net poles

-eel basket setting

-holding the house frame together (can be replaced)


Redbud:

-gambling cards (suckerfish story)


Mock orange:

-arrows

-flower dance sticks


Red or Black Huckleberry (bush):

-arrows


Iron Wood / Ocean Spray (bush):

-arrows


Tanoak:

-food (woo-mehl → key-goh)

-fungi that grows around the base is also used as a medicine (tea) “conk”


Soo’: used to call it money trees (“shittem bark” chitum) people would gather it up and sell it to the doctors)

-laxative chew on the bark


Chinquapin tree

-nuts are edible

-hard wood that people use for carpentry and carving