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cottonwood tree


Entry Type:  
Species
Scientific Name:  
Common Name:  
cottonwood tree
Myaamia Name:  
maaloonseentia

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Myaamia Archival Sources  
Reference Source Reference Type Archival Data Comments
Thwaites, R.G. (ed.) 1903 Use - Material 

Wood used to make canoes: ". . . I have seen some canows made of those trees ["cotton-trees" or cottonwood trees], eighty foot long, and three foot broad, which carry thirty men. I saw 180 of those wooden-canows in one village of the savages consisting of 300 cabins".

Thwaites, R.G. (ed.) 1903 Use - Technology 

Wood used to make canoes: "The Cotton-Trees are of a prodigious height, the Savages make them hollow with Fire, to make their Pyrogues of them, and we have seen some of them all of a-piece, above an hundred Foot long".

Gonella, M.P 2003-2006 Use - Material 

Used for wood sculpture. Crane/cattail sculpture in Eiteljorg made of cottonwood by Eugene Brown.

Botanical Sources  
Reference Source Reference Type Data Comments
Gleason, H.A. and Cronquist, A. 1991 Habitat 

Occurs in lowland woods, wet prairies and riparian areas throughout eastern and western Myaamia lands.

Related Sources  
Reference Source Reference Type Data Comments
Costa, D. 2005  

"mar8ssintia", cottonwood

Burns, N.L. 1938  

The Peoria of Oklahoma cut up the tender shoots of hackberry, elm and poplar for cattle fodder.

Dunn, J.P. ca. 1900  

 "wapakoza'ndia, cottonwood tree"

Gravier, J. ca. 1700  

waapantoowa, "8abant8aki"

Le Boullenger, Antoine-Robert, S.J. 1719-1744  

"8apant8oki"