Ethnobotanical sample

Object status:

Deaccessioned

Museum number:

1-9969

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010009969

Alternate number:

77 (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:

Twisted bundle (Oenanthe).

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Rail Road Flat, Calaveras County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Calaveras; Railroad Flat

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

1906

Taxon:

Oenanthe

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Botanical samples

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

The kind of weed used in collecting and burning salt. These weeds were placed in brackish water and absorbed the salt. They were then burned, the salt forming a thin hard cake in the ashes; originally the only means of obtaining salt by the Miwok.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Comment:

Sent...& not retn." (from ledger)

Legacy documentation: