Pitch is used as an adhesive.
By many Pueblo peoples, the the sturdy dried stalks were used as bird snares. At corn planting time, sprigs of sage are sprinkled for blessings for fertility to come. Dried roots a ground and sifted and prepared like regular coffee beverages. The Hopi use the trees for carving Katsina dolls. The trees trunks are preferred by Puebloan drum makers.