Black seeds, used for food, "tca'la". The main component of the specimen consists of fruits of Wyethia angustifolia (DC.) Nutt., California compassplant, Asteraceae. Other items found and placed in gelatin capsules: 2 florets of Bromus hordeaceus L., soft chess, Poaceae; 2 fruits of Sonchus asper (L.) Hill, prickly sow thistle, Asteraceae; 5 fruits of Plectritis congesta (Lindl.) DC., shortspur seablush, Valerianaceae
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Wailaki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Taxon:
Plectritis congesta and Wyethia angustifolia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical samples
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Used as 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:
S1987-1988 #41: University of North Carolina/Geirge R. Holcomb (March 29, 1988–July 6, 1990) and 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)