Root

Museum number:
1-11956
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010011956
Alternate number:
1118 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Angelica.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Yuki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical remains
Function:
8.2 Medicine and Hygiene
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Medicine. Smoke or chew for cold.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 39: tcintcal angelica. smoke or chew for cold." Note: Paradichlorobenzene added for fumigation purposes by Ellen Longacre March 10, 1972; removed October 19, 1972.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Root, accession number 1-11956, described as Angelica.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Root, accession number 1-11956, described as Angelica.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Root, accession number 1-11956, described as Angelica.

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