Root bundle

Museum number:
2-66909a-c
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210266909a@2dc
Accession number:
Acc.3860
Description:
Roots (Ligusticum porteri).
Donor:
Bruce Bernstein
Collection place:
New Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
New Mexico
Culture or time period:
Spanish American
Collector:
Bruce Bernstein
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
8.2 Medicine and Hygiene
Context of use:
Widely esteemed in the Southwest as an herbal medicine. Used as a general tonic and to keep rattlesnakes away from sleeping places on the ground. Has a pleasant fragrance which is the solvent of the resin which permeates the roots. The fragrance is the
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
Native name: "osha'".
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Root bundle, accession number 2-66909a-c, described as Roots (Ligusticum porteri).Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Root bundle, accession number 2-66909a-c, described as Roots (Ligusticum porteri).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Root bundle, accession number 2-66909a-c, described as Roots (Ligusticum porteri).

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