Beans

Museum number:

1-220787

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Accession number:

Acc.1184

Description:

Mesquite beans in their pods.

Donor:

Lawrence E. Dawson

Collection place:

Palm Springs, Riverside County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Riverside; Palm Springs

Culture or time period:

California tribes and Southwest California tribes

Collector:

Clarence E. Smith

Collection date:

1955

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Botanical samples

Function:

8.1 Foods

Accession date:

1956

Context of use:

Museum exhibition.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Comment:

Remarks: Purchased for "Food Economy" exhibit in 1955.

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 S1979-1980 #55: California Academy of Sciences (April 4, 1980–December 19, 1981)

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