The third, Grindelia robusta, was used in the treatment of pulmonary troubles, and externally in poisoning from Rhus toxicodendron, or Poison Oak, and in various skin diseases." Their food was of the crudest and simplest character.

Whatever they could catch they ate, from deer or bear to grasshoppers, lizards, rats, and snakes.

In baskets of their own manufacture, they gathered all kinds of wild seeds, and after using a rude process of threshing, they winnowed them.

They also gathered mesquite beans in large quantities, burying them in pits for a month or two, in order to extract from them certain disagreeable flavors, and then storing them in large and rudely made willow granaries.

But, as Dr.Bard well says: "Of the Vegetable articles of diet the acorn was the principal one.