Healing Hands: Additional Resources

The Healing Hands exhibit in the Mezzanine Gallery on the second floor of the Coos History Museum explores the history of medicine in Coos County. This exhibit features a large sampling of the various establishments, people, tools, and continuing indigenous traditional medicinal practices that contributed to the health of Southern Oregon Coast communities since the 1800s.

This exhibit will be open from February 19, 2022 through the end of 2022. 

Indigenous Medicinal Plant Names and Pronunciation

xap / hap / water

 

Hanis: xap’


 
Miluk: hap

maha’wai / txai / red elderberry

 

Hanis: maha’wai


 
Miluk: txai

lishwat / blue elderberry

 

Hanis: lishwat

hlnakatii / fireweed

 

Hanis & Miluk: hlnakatii

Oregon grape

 

wixainii / dzuudzuua / ts’xat’at’ / Pacific blackberry

 

Hanis: wixainii


 
Miluk: dzuudzuua


 
Siuslaw: ts’xat’at’

muuxwtsii’ne / wild rose

 

Hanis: muuxwtsii’ne

wegenhl / shichils / myrtle tree & myrtle nut 

 

Hanis: wegenhl


 
Hanis & Miluk: shichils

dahamp / dahai / chiiyuus / tobacco

 

Hanis: dahamp


 
Miluk: dahai


 
Siuslaw: chiiyuus