Biology ETDs
Publication Date
9-27-1938
Abstract
The aim of this paper shall be, not simply to catalog the aboriginal uses of cacti in the Southwest, but to attempt to show their value to the aborigines as food, in general, and medical uses, ceremonial import, and their significance in myth and legend, in short, the place they occupied in southwestern life.
Language
English
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Biology
Level of Degree
Masters
Department Name
UNM Biology Department
First Committee Member (Chair)
Edward Franklin Castetter
Second Committee Member
Willis H. Bell
Third Committee Member
Mamie Tanquist Miller
Recommended Citation
Norris, Theodore. "The Aboriginal Utilization of the Small Cacti in the American Southwest." (1938). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/biol_etds/209
