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- 4Medicinal Plants - Northern Canada
- 4Traditional food - Northern Canada
- 4Wild fruit - Northern Canada
- 3Canada, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife
- 2Plants - Northwest Territories
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2015-07-09
This ground juniper was beside the board walk that leads up the side of The Rock, to the Pilots' Monument. Many parts of the plant are used in traditional medicine. The berries are eaten as food.
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2015-08-30
This species of Labrador tea has fewer stamens and broader leaves. Labrador tea is used medicinally, by Indigenous people, both as a drink and as a bath preparation.
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.jpg "Painting of gooseberries on the south exterior wall of the Yellowknife Inn")
2015-07-09
This painting on the corrugated metal exterior wall of the Yellowknife Inn in Yellowknife, NWT shows the flower, foliage and green and ripe berries of the green gooseberry plant. Gooseberries are used as both traditional food and traditional medicine by Indigenous people in Canada's North
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2015-07-09
This is one of a series of paintings of berries that are affixed to the exterior south wall of the Yellowknife Inn.
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2014-09-28
A shrub that produces small scarlet stone fruit. The seed is large and flat. The taste is tart and the berries have a strong smell.
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2017-07-06
A member of the gooseberry family, skunkberries or skunk currants are found across nothern Canada. This edible berry has a strong odor and bristly. Skunkberries can be used to make jelly and were used as a traditional medicine by Indigenous people.
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