| Reference Source | Reference Type | Archival Data | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Reference Specified | Description | "There is another tree which has branches filled with thorns as long as ones fingers. It also has pods which are not so big nor so long; they are full of little beans which are very hard." | |
| No Reference Specified | Use - Material | "At night most of the men; seated like dogs on mats of round reeds; play with straws. For markers they use the little beans which I have mentioned; which grow on the thorny trees;" "They have perhaps five or six hundred of these beans; some of which they stake on each play . . . " | |
| No Reference Specified | Use - Unknown | "kawinjakwa; honey locust; thorn tree" |
| Reference Source | Notes | Data | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Reference Specified | Occurs in rich; moist woods in the southern portions of eastern; and throughout western Miami lands; and cultivated in many other areas |
| Reference Source | Notes | Data | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Reference Specified | Algonquians play the game of straws with seeds; probably taken from the Honey locust tree or Kentucky coffee-tree. "Sometimes they play [the game of straws] with seeds which grow on the trees; which clsoely resemble little beans" | ||
| No Reference Specified | The Miami-Illinois term "akaawia" means thorn |