icii uusieu uieinseives in collecting a 

 Ti/phn, in a mass of which was laid 

 ch adhered after drying the mother 

 ;er moistening with milk from her 

 inknown to the Plains tril)es previous 

 hence, instead of cotton diapers, pads 

 the purpose by the motiiers in these 



rrowleaf. (PI. lA.) 



[from the likeness of the tuber to the 

 also as klts-kaf. "standing in water," 



rit. 

 were used for food, prepared by boil- 



aust have some other use for the plant 



liowed excited interest when he saw a 

 he did not communicate to me what 



' 



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nike and the Four Creators," Sagit- 

 ) in the myth " How the Big Turtle 



ins iSaglttaria as a food jilant among 



of a plant, the root of which they were 



It grows In low, muddy, and very wet 

 inly an inch and a half long, and one inch 

 le ; but some of the roots have been us 

 5 either boiled this root or roasted it in 

 in arrow-liead or ISagittdria, and is only a 

 r Sagittaha sagittifolM, for the plant above 

 ut the root under ground is much greater 

 lean. Mr. Osbeek, in his voyage to China, 



Sngittaria, and eat its roots. This seems 



katniss. 



instated ot" " wild rice." Si" is Sagittaria ; wild 

 erica, vol. i, p. 380. 



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