Species Detail

Ulmus americana L.
American elm tree

Scientific Name:

Ulmus americana L.

Common Name:

American elm tree

Myaamia Name:

pahkokwaniši

Uses:

Material, Technology

Harvest Seasons:

Undetermined

Habitats:

Undetermined

Locations:

Undetermined

Growth Forms:

Undetermined

Myaamia Archival Sources ▼

Ulmus americana L.

Reference Source	Reference Type	Archival Data	Comments
No Reference Specified	Use - Technology	young shoots of hackberry; elm and poplar fed to livestock during hard times
No Reference Specified	Use - Material	there is one item made from elm bark; a miniature sap trough; housed at the Cranbrook Institute in Michigan
No Reference Specified	Use - Technology	bark used for making canoes. "The Miamis did not use birch-bark canoes; which the Algonquians usually called tci-maun; but they sometimes made canoes of hickory or elm bark. The name for these is la-kik-kwi-mis-so-li or bark canoe"
No Reference Specified	Use - Unknown	"pakac8eningi"; american elm

Botanical Sources ▼

Ulmus americana L.

Reference Source	Notes	Data	Comments
No Reference Specified		Occurs in moist; rich soils throughout eastern and western Miami lands

Related Sources ▼

Ulmus americana L.

Reference Source	Notes	Data	Comments
No Reference Specified		Human charred timber wood was recovered in an excavation from an early Miami Village site at the forks of the Wabash River (Ft Wayne), 1795-1812 (Ehler Site).
No Reference Specified		". . . some of them [Shawnees] make canoes of elm bark . . . "