Shelled heads of plant called Indian wheat. The specimen consists of inflorescence heads and fruits of Wyethia angustifolia (DC.) Nutt., California compassplant, Asteraceae.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Guidiville Rancheria, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Asylum Rancheria
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1902
Taxon:
Wyethia angustifolia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical samples
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1903
Context of use:
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:
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)