Winnebago ethnobotany.

[Robert L. Rankin]

I wanted to call your attention to a Siouan-related paper that has
appeared in the journal _Economic Botany_ (something most of us wouldn't
ordinarily see).  It is:  

Kindscher, Kelly and Dana P. Hurlburt.  (1998)  "Huron Smith's Ethnobotany
of the Hocak (Winnebago)", _Economic Botany_ 52(4):352-372.

Huron Smith published ethnobotanies of several Wisconsin and other
nearby tribes in the '20's and '30's.  John Koontz found that there was an
unpublished manuscript for Winnebago in the Milwaukee Public Museum.  I
was the one who called it to the attention of Kindscher et al.  

Smith included an extensive Winnebago plant vocabulary in his MS. 
Kindscher apparently took it to the Tribe in Wisconsin for modern
spellings and translations.  These are provided in the article by Kenneth
Funmaker, Sr. and his staff.  Unfortunately they omit both vowel length
and accent from their transcription.  Anyone interested in using the
transcriptions as linguistic examples should probably go back to the
manuscript and then to Ken Miner's Winnebago Field Lexicon rather than the
published article.  The ethnobotany itself is very well done. 

Bob