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| Blair, E 1911 | Use - Food | Umbilicaria dillenii, called "tripe de roche" by Perrot, was eaten by the Algonquians that do not cultivate the ground, but are nomadic. "They consider themselves very fortunate in their hunting expeditions when they encounter some rabbits, martens, or partridges, from which to make a soup, and without what we call tripe de roche--which you would say is a species of gray moss, dry, and resembling oublies [wafers used to stick papers together], and which of itself has only an earthy taste, and the flavor of the soup in which it is cooked--most of their families would perish of hunger". |
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| Dunn, J.P. 1919 | Use - Food | "It is used for food only as a last resort, and Father Andre well says of it: "It is necessary to close one's eyes when one begins to eat it". |
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| Consortia of North American Lichen Herbaria | Habitat | A lichen, which is a fungus with algal symbionts. Occurs on rocky substrates in eastern Myaamia lands. |
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| Kenton, E. 1925 | A flat-'leafed' lichen was eaten by the Ottawas. "When hunger is added to these discomforts [excessive heat and cold], it is a severe hardship, but one that soon teaches a man to find a relish in the bitterest roots and the most putrid meat. We were forced to accustom ourselves to eat a certain moss growing upon the rocks. It is a sort of shell-shaped leaf which is always covered with catepillars and spiders, and which, on being boiled, furnishes an insipid soup, black and viscous, that rather serves to ward off death than to impart life". |
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| Kellogg, L.P. 1923 | Trippe de Roches also mentioned as a food source by Charlevoix, referring to wandering Indians of the midwest that do not cultivate the ground. |
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| Gatschet, A.S. ca. 1895 | nipopi minosakayi |
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| Dunn, J.P. ca. 1900 | minosakai |