Salt

Museum number:
1-157428
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1442
Description:
Salt obtained from salt grass.
Donor:
American Indian Film Project and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Lemoore, Kings County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kings; Lemoore
Culture or time period:
Tachi Yokuts
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1961
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mineral and rock samples
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1961
Context of use:
Foodstuff.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Native name: "alit" - salt grass.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #34a: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 16, 1964–March 25, 1966), S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965), and S1975-1976 #39: Department of Nutritional Sciences (UC Berkeley) (December 2, 1975–December 18, 1975)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Salt, accession number 1-157428, described as Salt obtained from salt grass.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Salt, accession number 1-157428, described as Salt obtained from salt grass.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Salt, accession number 1-157428, described as Salt obtained from salt grass.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Salt, accession number 1-157428, described as Salt obtained from salt grass.

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