Root

Museum number:
1-10201
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010201
Alternate number:
321 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254
Description:
Specimen, ethnobotanical; root.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Chicken Ranch, Tuolumne County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tuolumne; Chicken Ranch
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical remains
Function:
8.2 Medicine and Hygiene
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Medicine. "Root ground when dry, or rubbed without drying when green, to make a lather, which is rubbed on the abdomen for any internal pain, and of no other use.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Root, accession number 1-10201, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical; root.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Root, accession number 1-10201, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical; root.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Root, accession number 1-10201, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical; root.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Root, accession number 1-10201, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical; root.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Root, accession number 1-10201, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical; root.

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