Small, light brown. The main component of the specimen consists of nutlets of Salvia columbariae Benth., chia, Lamiaceae Other items found and placed in gelatin capsules: 7 seeds of Calandrinia ciliata (Ruiz & Pav.) DC., red maids, Portulacaceae; 3 seeds of Gilia sp., gilia, Polemoniaceae; 2 achenes of Hemizonia sp., tarweed, Asteraceae
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Drum Valley, Fresno County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tulare; Drum Valley
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
February 1907
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:
Piece count on card: "1", description is plural. Native name: "kawa".
Loans:
S1969-1970 #3: University of California, Berkeley (July 7, 1969–December 14, 1970), 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)