Turnips

Museum number:
2-5253
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020005253
Alternate number:
66 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.131 and Acc.52
Description:
String of wild turnips; braided.
Donor:
David Ives Bushnell Jr., G. B. Gordon, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and W. C. Farabee
Collection place:
Central Plains, Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Central Plains
Culture or time period:
Umoⁿhoⁿ
Collector:
Francis La Flesche
Collection date:
1901-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1904 and September 8, 1902
Context of use:
Peeled, sliced, dried and sewed up in skin bags for winter use; an important vegetable food for the Omaha; often collected in large quantities on the buffalo hunt.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
Exhibited: UCLMA, "Plains Indians", 1971. Peeled, sliced, dried and sewed up in skin bags for winter use; an important vegetable food for the Omaha; often collected in large quantities on the buffalo hunt.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Turnips, accession number 2-5253, described as String of wild turnips; braided.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Turnips, accession number 2-5253, described as String of wild turnips; braided.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Turnips, accession number 2-5253, described as String of wild turnips; braided.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Turnips, accession number 2-5253, described as String of wild turnips; braided.

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