Angelica
- Museum number:
- 1-198226
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010198226
- Accession number:
- Acc.1408
- Description:
- Dried specimen of "angelica" plant, Lomatium californicum.
- Donor:
- American Indian Film Project
- Collection place:
- Hopland Rancheria, Hopland, Mendocino County
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Mendocino; Hopland Rancheria
- Culture or time period:
- Central Pomo
- Collector:
- Samuel A. Barrett and Susie Billie
- Collection date:
- 1961
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 8.2 Medicine and Hygiene
- Accession date:
- 1961
- Context of use:
- The oily, fragrant root is used mainly as a charm, a ritual purifier and internal and external medicine.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
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- Legacy documentation:
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