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Wanesia Spry Misquadace (Fond du Lac Ojibwe), jeweler and birch bark biter, 2011 [1]Native American jewelry refers to items of personal adornment, whether for personal use, sale or as art; examples of which include necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and pins, as well as ketohs, wampum, and labrets, made by one of the Indigenous peoples of the United States.
The squash blossoms are frequently stuffed and cooked in some Southeast European and Middle Eastern cuisines. The dish is called Kolokythoanthoi in Greek and Kabak çiçeği dolması [ tr] in Turkish language and such dishes belong to a family of stuffed vegetable dishes, dolma, in the cuisine of the former Ottoman Empire. [citation needed].
Calabash ( / ˈkæləbæʃ /; [ 2] Lagenaria siceraria ), also known as bottle gourd, [ 3] white-flowered gourd, [ 4] long melon, birdhouse gourd, [ 5] New Guinea bean, New Guinea butter bean, Tasmania bean, [ 6] and opo squash, is a vine grown for its fruit. It can be either harvested young to be consumed as a vegetable, or harvested mature to ...
The term "squash blossom" was apparently attached to the name of the Navajo necklace at an early date, although its bud-shaped beads are thought to derive from Spanish-Mexican pomegranate designs. [57] The Navajo silversmiths also borrowed the "naja" (najahe in Navajo) [58] symbol to shape the silver pendant that hangs from the "squash blossom ...
The candlenut grows to a height of up to 30 m (98 ft), with wide spreading or pendulous branches. The leaves are pale green, simple, and ovate or heart-shaped on mature shoots, but may be three-, five-, or seven-lobed on saplings. [ 5] They are up to 20 cm (7.9 in) long and 13 cm (5.1 in) wide and young leaves are densely clothed in rusty or ...
Cucurbita pepo is a cultivated plant of the genus Cucurbita. It yields varieties of winter squash and pumpkin, but the most widespread varieties belong to the subspecies Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo, called summer squash. [ 3] It has been domesticated in the Americas for thousands of years. [ 4]
Pandanus tectorius is a species of Pandanus (screwpine) that is native to Malesia, Papuasia, eastern Australia, and the Pacific Islands. It grows in the coastal lowlands typically near the edge of the ocean. [ 3] Common names in English include thatch screwpine, [ 4] Tahitian screwpine, [ 5] hala tree[ 6] ( pū hala in Hawaiian) [ 7] and ...
N. chevroniferum Flower, 1971. Najaceras is a genus of straight, slender endocerid known only from the Whiterockian age Oil Creek Limestone of Oklahoma, introduced and named by Rousseau Flower in 1971 and further described by him in 1976. Najaceras is characterized by a longitudinal mound of material that runs forward from the apical region ...