Chia" food seed. The main component of the specimen consists of nutlets of Salvia columbariae Benth., chia,Lamiaceae. Other items found and placed in gelatin capsules: 5 seeds of Oenothera sp., evening primrose, Onagraceae; 2 seeds of Epilobium brachycarpum C. Presl., tall annual willowherb, Onagraceae; 2 seeds of Descurainia sp., tansy mustard, Brassicaceae; 1 seed of Phacelia sp., phacelia, Hydrophyllaceae; 1 seed of Collinsia sp., possibly Collinsia parviflora Douglas ex Lindl., maiden blue eyed Mary, Plantaginaceae (also placed in Scrophulariaceae and Veronicaceae)
Donor:
Julian H. Steward and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Big Pine, Inyo County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Inyo; Big Pine
Culture or time period:
Eastern Mono
Collector:
Julian H. Steward
Collection date:
July 1927
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical samples
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1928
Context of use:
Food.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
These seeds were sampled and sent to the Department of Food and Agriculture for identification by Kat Anderson and others in her lab. She is the ethnoecologist at the National Plant Data Center, Natural Resources Conservation Service at the University of California. The seeds were returned in December of 2009.
Loans:
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)