Pine nuts

Museum number:

1-9903

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010009903

Alternate number:

7 (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:

Specimen, ethnobotanical. Gray (?) pine nuts, 4 bottles.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Jackson Rancheria, Jackson, Amador County

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Amador; Miwok Reservation

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

1906

Taxon:

Pinus

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

8.1 Foods

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

Foodstuff

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:

S1964-1965 #31: Science Center (Diablo Valley College) (1960–July 21, 1967), S1975-1976 #39: Department of Nutritional Sciences (UC Berkeley) (December 2, 1975–December 18, 1975), S1980-1981 #54: California Academy of Sciences (March 1981–July 20, 1988), 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)

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