The main component of the specimen consists of fruits of Hemizonia congesta DC., hayfield tarweed, Asteraceae. Other items found and placed in gelatin capsules: 1 seed of Medicago sativa L., alfalfa, Fabaceae; 1 achene of Rumex sp., dock, Polygonaceae1 achene of Polygonum sp., knotweed, Polygonaceae; 1 glumes of Avena sp., Poaceae; 1 floret of Lolium perenne L., perennial ryegrass, Poaceae; 1 floret of Gastridium phleoides (Nees & Meyen) C. E. Hubb., nitgrass, Poaceae.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Ukiah Rancheria, Ukiah Valley, Mendocino County
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Yokaia Rancheria
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
unknown
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:
S1964-1965 #32: Highlands Elementary School/Zelda Bellichi (November 11, 1964–November 30, 1964), S1983-1984 #14: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Anderson (Hupa) (September 19, 1983–September 26, 1983), 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)