Nuts

Museum number:
1-10484
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010484
Alternate number:
349 (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:
Pinon nuts.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Yosemite, Mariposa County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Yosemite
Production place:
Mono Lake, Mono County, California
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok and Northern Paiute
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical samples
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Pinon nuts were the chief article of barter among the Mono with their Miwok neighbors, they exchanging these nuts for acorns.
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)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Nuts, accession number 1-10484, described as Pinon nuts.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Nuts, accession number 1-10484, described as Pinon nuts.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Nuts, accession number 1-10484, described as Pinon nuts.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Nuts, accession number 1-10484, described as Pinon nuts.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Nuts, accession number 1-10484, described as Pinon nuts.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Nuts, accession number 1-10484, described as Pinon nuts.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Nuts, accession number 1-10484, described as Pinon nuts.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Nuts, accession number 1-10484, described as Pinon nuts.

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