Stems

Museum number:
1-12204
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010012204
Alternate number:
1261 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Specimen, ethnobotanical; plant stems
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Konkow (Northwestern Maidu)
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
8.2 Medicine and Hygiene
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Used as tea for headache medicine.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett filed notes, p. 87: "binibonum Make tea for headache. (same kind of medicine obtained[?] last winter among King's River Shoshoneans)". Remarks: A medicine of the same order has been obtained among the Shoshonean tribes of Kings River.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Stems, accession number 1-12204, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical; plant stems
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Stems, accession number 1-12204, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical; plant stemsDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Stems, accession number 1-12204, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical; plant stemsDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Stems, accession number 1-12204, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical; plant stemsDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Stems, accession number 1-12204, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical; plant stems

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