Murphey Edith Van Allen (14 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Clean Pages. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona. Slight edge wear and bumping.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint of 1958 edition. Solid VG trade paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition.

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Mendocino County Historical Society, Published 1987. Wraps, 81 pp.; 23 cm; fourth printing; illustrated with line drawings by Ella M. Hanks, black-and-white photographs, and printed pictorial endpapers. In Very Good condition. Yellow illustrated card covers, mild shelf and edge wear, a hint of fading to spine. Adhesive ghost from a removed price sticker at lower right of rear cover, and a faint horizontal crease across rear cover. Staple bound, binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked, small stain to top edge of pp. 36-37 and a few small spots in gutter of p. 37. Otherwise unmarked. Ethnobotany of the Great Basin and northern California, drawn from ten years of fieldwork on stock-poisoning plants for the United States Indian Service in the Rocky Mountain area and over fifty years of residence in Mendocino County. Murphey gathered plant knowledge from the Paiutes of Pyramid Lake, Walker River and Fort McDermitt, five groups of Shoshones in Nevada, the Bannocks of Idaho, the Washoes, the Utes, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and the Papagos of Arizona. Dictionary of Plant Names lists common, Indian and botanical names in parallel columns with tribal attributions, spelling the Indian names phonetically. Photographs include the first Wild Flower Show at Carson Indian School, Stewart, Nevada, 1935, and a portrait of the author. Printed endpapers reproduce a Warm Springs, Oregon moon calendar and an animated map of Utah made by students of the Uintah Indian School, Whiterocks, 1944. In this Historical Society printing the plant-name dictionary was edited to current nomenclature by Walter Knight of the East Bay Regional Park District, and indexes of common and scientific names were added; the original text is otherwise unchanged. Contents: Basketry; Indian Foods; Famine Foods; Beverages; Feasts; Greens; Meat; Nuts; Seeds; The Salt Journey; Medicinal Plants; Ceremonials and Magic; Bows and Arrows; Dye Plants; Tanning Hides; Odds and Ends; Hair; Tepees; Tobacco; Dictionary of Plant Names; Index of Common Names; Index of Scientific Names.…

paperback. Condition: poor. Desert Printers, Inc., Palm Desert, Ca., c.1959, 2nd.prtg., 6"x9", staple-bound wraps, 72pp., drawings,good but quite musty so poor, $.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Rebound in Hardcover, with cover glued to front board and Utah map on inside front cover. No Library markings. A concise, classic ethnobotanical guide that documents how Native American tribes utilized indigenous flora across the American West and Intermountain regions. Originally published in 1959 by the Mendocino County Historical Society, the text serves as a direct, practical record of traditional ecological knowledge. Murphey spent 25 years studying and living alongside 11 different tribes while working as a range botanist for the U.S. Indian Service.…

ed. paperback very good condition with a bit of wear.

Stapled wraps. Condition: Very Good-. Fourth Printing. This is a trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The booklet covers have some lightish bumping, rubbing and wear. Both front and rear covers of the booklet have spots of ground-in dirt and spotting. The text pages are generally clean and bright, though the foredge of the text block has a patch of discoloration that has seeped onto the bottom corners of the first several pages. The booklet includes information on native plants (for California and Nevada) that can be used for food sources, basketry , beverages, medicines, ceremonies and magic, arms (bows and arrows) , dyes, tanning, hair, tepees and much more. The text also includes bits and pieces of native mythology, and other information. "Edith Van Allen Murphey (1879-1968) came to Mendocino County from New York via Berkeley in 1903. The young librarian-linguist homesteaded a wilderness plot at Sherwood where she befriended her Native neighbors. As a Covelo resident during the Great Depression, she acted in behalf of impoverished Native people in Round Valley. From 1925 to 1935 she lived with eleven tribes as the United State Indian Service's only range botanist. She spent the rest of her action-packed 89 1/2 years chronicling, collecting, advocating, & preserving Native American culture, from basketry to recipes. A self-taught ethno-botanist, Murphey compiled the Stockman's Pocketbook, A Manual of Poison Plants, and the book Indian Uses of Native Plants, published by the Mendocino County Historical Society, which is still in print. She died at home in Covelo. " (from Sojourn magazine Winter 1996-1997); B&W Illustrations; 81p. pages; Pictured 4/17/26.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Excellent condition.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Stapled Wraps. pp. viii, 81. 8vo. Illustrated stiff yellow card covers; pictorial and map endpapers. Black and white photographs, illustrations, drawings. Sections include: Basketry; Indian Foods; Famine Foods; Beverages; Feasts; Greens; Meat; Nuts; Medicinal Plants; Ceremonials and Magic; Tanning Hides; Medicinal Plants for Venereal Diseases; Hair, et al. A comprehensive section on medicinal use of plants for alleviating symptoms of colds, sore throats, eye infections; plants used to act as a blood coagulators; heart and tonic; kidney and bladder trouble; poultices; smallpox; wounds; rheumatism; sores and boils and many others. No detectable flaws; contents bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine. Scarce with no copies presently housed at LAC/BAC.…