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Library · Ethnobotany of the Zuñi Indians, 1915

Achillea lanulosa Nutt. Yarrow.

Matilda Coxe Stevenson, p. 42. Transcribed from the page image on September 25, 2026, as printed.

Achillea lanulosa Nutt. Yarrow. Carduaceæ. Thistle family.

Ha'tsenawe, ‘cold leaf’ (ha < ha'li, leaf; tse'nawe, cold).

The leaves of this plant are said to produce a cooler sensation, when applied to the skin, than those of any other plant.

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The entire plant ground and mixed with cold water is applied to burns. When thus used the medicine is common property.

One paragraph omitted at […]: it describes the plant's use by the fraternities that perform with fire, which the book records as their exclusive property. The author's small-type note on yarrow in Europe and India, printed below the article, is not transcribed.