sunflowers MORE

[Mark J Awakuni-Swetland]

Bob,

>>From JOD reel 2 frame 83 
zha 
a genus including all yellow flowering plants as the artichokes & 
sunflowers, etc

2.84
zhaxthazi
The yellow flowers of the different species of the "zha" genus, including 
the sunflowers (Om.Soc.283).
Not the regular sunflower of the prairie, but a shorter plant which 
matures in September (George Miller)

Om.Soc.283
...The time for the return [from the te une buffalo hunt] was when the 
wind blew open the "jaqcashi," the sunflowers and the flowers of other 
species of the "ja," which was about the first of September.

>>From Gilmore's Uses of Plants... p. 78
Helianthus annus L. Sunflower
zhazi (Omaha-Ponca) "yellow wee"

Gilmore includes the Dakdota and Pawnee terms which I will not try to 
render in email script.

Uthighide




Mark Awakuni-Swetland, Ph.D.
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Anthropology-Geography
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