Root
- Museum number:
- 1-10274
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010010274
- Alternate number:
- 490 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254
- Description:
- Specimen, ethnobotanical; Angelica root: Angelica breweri ??, probably Lomatium californicum (fide Lawrence E. Dawson, May 11, 1964).
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection place:
- Bald Rock, Tuolumne County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Tuolumne; Bald Rock
- Culture or time period:
- Eastern Miwok
- Collector:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection date:
- 1906
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Botanical remains
- Function:
- 8.2 Medicine and Hygiene
- Accession date:
- 1906
- Context of use:
- Medicine. "Among other uses it is chewed and rubbed upon the body, or tea is drunk to keep snakes away.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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