Fungus

Museum number:
2-2145
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
From a birch tree. Eskimo term: Poopigooak.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon River, Yukon River, Yukon
Verbatim coll. place:
; Lower Yukon River
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical samples
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
For making ashes to mix with tobacco for snuff/Used when reduced to ashes to mix with snuff.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
Native name: Poopigookak.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fungus, accession number 2-2145, described as From a birch tree. Eskimo term: Poopigooak.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fungus, accession number 2-2145, described as From a birch tree. Eskimo term: Poopigooak.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fungus, accession number 2-2145, described as From a birch tree. Eskimo term: Poopigooak.

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