102 USES OF PLANTS BY INDIANS [ETH. ANN. 33 
RHAMNACEAE 
CranoTuus AMERICANUS L. Red Root, Indian Tea. 
Tabe-hi (Omaha-Ponea). 
The leaves were used by all the tribes to make a drink like tea. 
The taste is something like that of the Asiatic tea and is much better 
than that of the South American yerba maté. On the buffalo hunt, 
when timber was scarce, the great gnarled woody roots of this shrub, 
often much larger than the part above ground, were used for fuel. 
VITACEAE. 
Viris crnerna Engelm. and V. vunpina L. Wild Grape. 
Hastatha"ka (Dakota); Teton dialect Cha” wiyape. The Teton 
name simply means vine (cha", tree; wiyape, twine, tree-twiner ). 
Hazi (Omaha-Ponca). Grape vine, hazi-hi. 
Hapsintsh (Winnebago). 
Kisuts (Pawnee). 
The fruit was used for food, either fresh or dried for winter use. 
A Pawnee said he had seen people tap large grapevines in spring 
and collect the sap to drink fresh. He said it tasted like grape juice. 
ParTHENocissus QuiInquErouiA (L.) Planch. Virginia Creeper, 
False Grape. 
Ingtha hazi itai (Omaha-Ponca), ghost grapes (Aazi, grapes). 
CELASTRACEAE 
EvonyMts aTropurrurra Jacq. Burning Brush. 
Wanaha-i-mo"thin (Omaha-Ponea), “ ghost walking-stick.” 
A Winnebago medicine-man said women drink a decoction of the 
inner bark for uterine trouble. 
CELASTRUS SCANDENS L. Bitter-sweet. 
Zuzecha-ta-wote (Dakota), “snake-food” (zuzecha, snake; wote, 
food; ta, genitive sign). 
An Oglala called it snake-food and held the notion that it is 
poisonous. 
‘TILIACEAE 
Tra americana L. (PI. 19, 6.) 
Hitta-cha® (Dakota). 
Hinde-hi (Omaha-Ponca). 
Hinshke (Winnebago). 
The inner bark fiber was used by the Omaha and Ponca for making 
cordage and ropes. The Pawnee say it was employed also for spin- 
ning cordage and weaving matting. 
