| Reference Source | Reference Type | Archival Data | Comments |
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| Dunn, J.P. ca. 1900 | Use - Food/Technology | "paciani'kopa, Peorias call this pignut" |
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| Miami Tribe of Oklahoma Archives | Use - Food | There were Carya sp. charcoal remains and other hickory nutshells found in sample 082, 082 & 085, from the New Lennox remains. |
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| Tippman, D. 1999 | Use - Food | Nuts gathered for food |
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| Coulter, S 1899 | Description | Carya glabra is the only pignut hickory mentioned in Coulter's flora of Indiana, and this species was widely distributed throughout the state, a tree up to 120 feet high with 3-5 foot diameters. C. cordiformis is not mentioned. |
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| Dunn, J.P. 1919 | Use - Technology | "If they wanted canoes lighter than dug-outs, they made them of the bark of the water-elm or hickory, the pig-nut hickory being considered best. They cut down a tree, peeled off the bark with flat sticks. In the spring, when the trees were beginning to leave, the bark came off easily, and at other times they had to pound it to loosen it". |
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| Dunn, J.P. ca. 1900 | Use - Technology | Bark used for sugar-sap containers, wood for drying tables. " . . . this kind [of hickory wood] also used for tables for drying corn, berries, or fruit. In this case, poles were placed in forked sticks. Bark used for sugar troughs--the ends were bent up, fastened, soaked and straightened out and laid up like shingles when dry for use the following uear. These would last for several years. Boxes also made of this wood". |
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| Bogue, E.E. 1900 , March | Description | Carya cordiformis is much more common throughout Missouri than C. glabra, and both are commonly called Pignut hickory, suggesting that C. glabra was not common in the past in northeastern Oklahoma, although it was mentioned from one account in Oklahoma. |
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| Small, J.K. 1903 | Description | Carya glabra is the only pignut hickory mentioned in Small's flora, a tree up to 180 feet high and 4.5 foot diameters. C. cordiformis is not mentioned. |
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| Gleason, H.A. and Cronquist, A. 1991 | Habitat | Occurs in upland woods in eastern and western Myaamia lands. |
| Reference Source | Reference Type | Data | Comments |
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| Blair, E 1911 | Perrot describes a nut about 2 inches long that is bitter and oily and inedible which could be referring to the pignut, although it is not that bitter. |
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| Steyermark, J.A. 1963 | Early settlers obtained an oil from the nut that was used in oil lamps and in the treatment of rheumatism. |
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| Dunn, J.P. ca. 1900 | Dunn noted that the Myaamia term "pa'cianikopa" was used by the Peoria for the pignut hickory only. |
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| Dunn, J.P. 1909 | The Peoria term cited by Dunn for pignut hickory tree is also used by the eastern Myaamia as a generic for all hickory trees. |
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| Gatschet, A.S. ca. 1895 | "kwassianikupa, smooth-bark [pignut] hickory" |