Said to be wild oats wocetkaletc, used as food. The main component of the specimen consists of florets of Avena fatua L., wild oat, Poaceae. Other items found and placed in gelatin capsules: 20 florets of Bromus hordeaceus L., soft chess, soft brome, lopgrass, or brome mou, Poaceae; 1 floret of Vulpia bromoides (L.) Gray, brome fescue or squirreltail fescue, Poaceae; 1 floret of Elymus sp., Poaceae; 1 awn from the fruit of Erodium sp., filaree, Geraniaceae
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Yuki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Food.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p.54: Said to be wild oats wocetkaletc" "See Barrett's field cat. in acc envelope for fuller information.
Loans:
S1962-1963 #49: Sally Gosline (March 21, 1963–April 4, 1963), S1987-1988 #41: University of North Carolina/Geirge R. Holcomb (March 29, 1988–July 6, 1990), and S2008-2009 #11: Seed Lab, Plant Pest Diagnostics Center (CA Dept. of Food and Agriculture)/Department of Agriculture, UC Davis (April 6, 2009–December 1, 2009)