| Reference Source | Reference Type | Archival Data | Comments |
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| Gatschet, A.S. 1904 | Use - Food |
"iktamíngi - watermelon", literally meaning "raw food eaten without cooking". |
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| Pease, T. C. and R. C. Werner 1934 | Use - Food |
"They harvest also a great many watermelons which are admirable. I have seen numbers of them as big as water buckets (Elles recueillent aussi quantite de melons d'eau qui sont admirables j'en ay vu quantite d'aussi gros qu'un seau)". |
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| Thwaites, R.G. (ed.) 1903 | Use - Food |
"They greatly esteem their citruls, though they are none of the best. They dry them up, and keep them till the Winter and Spring". |
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| Thwaites, R.G. (ed.) 1903 | Use - Food |
"They have abundance of water-melons, citruls, and gourds". |
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| Thwaites, R.G. (ed.) 1966 | Use - Food |
Watermelons were given to Marquette and Joliet's party to eat. "We ate no other fruit there than watermelons" ("nous n'y avons pas mange de fruictz que des melons d'eau)". |
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| Pease, T. C. and R. C. Werner 1934 | Use - Medicinal |
Seeds used for medicine. "Their medicines they use for purging have all the effectiveness possible. There are some who use coloquinte, with which the wilderness abounds in autumn when they gather their seeds." ("Celles don’t ils se servent pour purger font tout l'effet possible. Il y a qui se servent de Coloquinte don’t les deserts sont pleins L'automne, quand ils ont cueillis leurs grains"). |
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| Kenton, E. 1925 | Use - Food |
Watermelon was given to the missionaries to eat. |
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| Kellogg, L.P. 1923 | Use - Food |
Watermelons were cultivated. |
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| Kellogg, L.P. 1923 | Use - Food |
Watermelons, along with sunflowers and gourds are first sprouted in a hot-bed and then transplanted into crop fields. |
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| Gatschet, A.S. ca. 1895 | Use - Food |
In the traditional story of Young Thunder William Pecongah, he describes the crops, including C. vulgaris, growing on his land 160 acres of reserve in central Indiana. "There I planted corn, wheat, potatoes, peas, tobacco, beans, apple trees, pumpkins, watermelons, cucumbers, onions, hay, straw, gooseberries, raspberries, blackberries, currants, turnips, tomatoes, pawpaws, cherries, strawberries, plums, blackhaws, peaches, walnut trees, pecans, hickory nuts, barley and rye." |
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| Dunn, J.P. ca. 1900 | Use - Food |
Watermelon is eaten raw. |
| Reference Source | Reference Type | Data | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hickman. J.C. 1993 | Habitat | This species is also known as C. colocynthis, hence coloquinte. C. vulgaris is a native to Africa cultivated throughout eastern and western Myaamia lands. |
| Reference Source | Reference Type | Data | Comments |
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| Anonymous 1837 | Watermelon is mentioned in this work. |
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| Steyermark, J.A. 1963 | There is no listing of Citrullus in Gleason and Cronquist 1991 nor in Deam 1940, but Steyermark lists this species as C. vulgaris and Small 1903 as C. citrullus. |