Pre-Historic Pueblo Use Of Datura

Description: 

Datura, a narcotic plant, has been widely used by native tribes in the SW, Mexico, Central America, and western South America. Most of this use generally can be subsumed under five categories: medicine; the procurement of good luck, power, and skill; clairvoyance and divination; intoxication; and ritual. Various locations of datura are described and discussed. Footnote. Bibliography.

Protocol: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center Public Access
Community: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
Category: 
Plants, Tribal Actions
Original Date: 
1959
Creator: 
Mcgibony, Jr
Language: 
English
Rights: 
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Source: 
America Indígena; Yarnell, RA. Pre-historic Pueblo use of datura. El Palacio 1959;66:176-78.
Identifier: 
9902575
Subject: 
Ceremonial, Medicinal Plants
Type: 
Monograph