Parched and ground wokas seeds. The specimen consists of ‘puffed’ seeds of Nuphar polysepala Engelm. [Nuphar lutea (L.) Sm. subsp. polysepala (Engelm.) E. O. Beal], Rocky Mountain pond-lily, Nymphaeaceae.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Klamath Reservation, Klamath County, Oregon
Culture or time period:
Klamath Lake and Modoc
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1907
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Ready to put into water and eat.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
These seeds were sampled and sent to the Department of Food and Agriculture for identification by Kat Anderson and others in her lab. She is the ethnoecologist at the National Plant Data Center, Natural Resources Conservation Service at the University of California. The seeds were returned in December of 2009.
Loans:
S2008-2009 #11: Seed Lab, Plant Pest Diagnostics Center (CA Dept. of Food and Agriculture)/Department of Agriculture, UC Davis (April 6, 2009–December 1, 2009)