Roots
- Museum number:
- 1-4379
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010004379
- Alternate number:
- 1626 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.135, Acc.136, Acc.137, and Acc.138
- Description:
- Atalyke roots. Resemble small, parched bulbs in a husk. Used as food.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Southwestern United States
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Southwest
- Culture or time period:
- Mohave
- Collector:
- Alfred L. Kroeber
- Collection date:
- 1904
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Botanical samples
- Function:
- 8.1 Foods
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Used as food.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- circumference 0.7 centimeters
- Comment:
- Native name and meaning: "Atalyke (Ata'lk)" (a small potato-like tuber). Published: C. Daryll Forde: American Arch. and Eth. Vol. 28, #4 pp. 83-278..."Ethnology of the Yuman Indians." p. 115, under "Other Collected Fruits.
- Legacy documentation:
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