Milkweed fiber
- Museum number:
- 1-21679
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010021679
- Accession number:
- Acc.545
- Description:
- Specimen, ethnobotanical; milkweed fiber. Raw material for string.
- Donor:
- Edward W. Gifford and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- North Fork, Madera County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Madera; North Fork
- Culture or time period:
- Western Mono
- Collector:
- Edward W. Gifford
- Collection date:
- August 1918
- Taxon:
- Asclepias californica
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 8.3 For Manufacturing
- Accession date:
- 1918
- Context of use:
- For string.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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