Seeds used as food. The specimen consists of fruits and plant fragments of Lomatium dissectum (Nutt.) Mathias & Constance, Lomatium, Apiaceae.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Ukiah Rancheria, Ukiah Valley, Mendocino County
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Yokaia Rancheria
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical samples
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1903
Context of use:
Food
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)