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