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Amazon peoples made salt from burned plants
The Witoto (Murui) burn palm shoots and other plants, wash the ash with water and boil the liquid down to grey “ash salts,” a key ingredient of the ceremonial tobacco paste ambil.
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Original sources
- Weiskopf, J. Witoto ash salts. Mundo Amazónico 11(2), 2020. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/imanimundo/article/download/87661/76745