SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN LIFE
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-09-14_DJ_26.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds two plump dried squash-like fruits outside the Besh-Ba-Gowah Museum in Arizona.</a>)  Eating the pulp & using the rind as a container, the Native American Salado people of Arizona made full use of "cucurbits", a word from the Latin for this vessel'
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