FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
TAXACEAE, TAXUS BREVIFOLIA, PACIFIC YEW
Hensolt, Edith A. 1966. How Oregon Indians Used the Native Flora. Benton cdounty Historical Society & Museum, Philomath, Oregon.
Preferred wood for bows. Scraped with mussel shell knives till shaped. Then steamed and curved, dried and smoothed with sandstone. Polishing was done with rushesw. Needles for sewing cattail mats were made of it. Also slender but strong combs, with finger length teeth. Cradle swings were made by sticking a long pole, split in half, into the ground at an angle and hanging the cradle from the tip. The cradle was swung by a cord.
