Plant material

Museum number:: 16-6166
Permalink:: ark:/21549/hm21160006166
Accession number:: Acc.728
Description:: “Cola de Caballo”, Equisetum sp.” used as a kidney remedy
Donor:: Thomas Harper Goodspeed
Collection place:: Peru
Verbatim coll. place:: Market in Cusco
Production place:: Cusco Region, Southern Peru
Culture or time period:: Quechan and Quechua
Collector:: James West
Taxon:: Equisetum
Object type:: ethnography
Object class:: Botanical samples
Function:: 8.2 Medicine and Hygiene
Accession date:: 1938
Department:: South America (except Ancient Peru)
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