Watercress

Museum number:
1-10948
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010948
Alternate number:
937 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.264, Acc.265, and Acc.266
Description:
Specimen, ethnobotanical; water cress. “Water cress was unknown to the Indians before the coming of the whites, but is now much used by them. There is a native plant used for greens which bears the same name.”
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Dunlap, Fresno County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Fresno; Dunlap
Culture or time period:
Western Mono
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
February 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Native name: "tsomoni" "Watercress was unknown to the Indians before the coming of the whites, but is now much used by them. There is a native plant used for greens which bears the same name.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Watercress, accession number 1-10948, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical; water cress. “Water cress was unknown to the Indians before the coming of the whites, but is now much used by them. There is a native plant used for greens which bears the same name.”
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Watercress, accession number 1-10948, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical; water cress. “Water cress was unknown to the Indians before the coming of the whites, but is now much used by them. There is a native plant used for greens which bears the same name.”Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Watercress, accession number 1-10948, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical; water cress. “Water cress was unknown to the Indians before the coming of the whites, but is now much used by them. There is a native plant used for greens which bears the same name.”

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