Roots

Museum number:
1-10374
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010374
Alternate number:
B 39 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254
Description:
Specimen, ethnobotanical.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Chicken Ranch, Tuolumne County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tuolumne; Chicken Ranch
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical samples
Function:
8.2 Medicine and Hygiene
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Pain killer. "Drink decoction as cure for rheumatism, headache, or other pain. Immediately upon drinking cover up well as medicine produces profuse perspiration.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Piece count on card: "1", description is plural.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Roots, accession number 1-10374, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Roots, accession number 1-10374, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Roots, accession number 1-10374, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Roots, accession number 1-10374, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Roots, accession number 1-10374, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Roots, accession number 1-10374, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical.

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