Sample. Mentzelia albicaulis. The main component of the specimen consists of seeds of Mentzelia sp., possibly M. albicaulis (Douglas) Douglas ex Torr. & A. Gray, white-stem blazing-star, Loasaceae. Other items found and placed in gelatin capsules: 580 seeds of Descurainia sp., possibly D. sophia (L.) Webb ex Prantl, flixweed, Brassicaceae; 2 seeds of Sisymbrium sp., Brassicaceae
Donor:
Lawrence E. Dawson
Collection place:
Bishop, Inyo County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Inyo; Bishop
Culture or time period:
Eastern Mono
Collector:
Lawrence E. Dawson
Collection date:
1958
Taxon:
Sisymbrium
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical samples
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1958
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Native name: "kuha
Loans:
S1961-1962 #13: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert F. Murphy (August 29, 1961–August 29, 1961), S1966-1967 #102: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (May 3, 1967–May 3, 1967), S1967-1968 #149: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Albert B. Elsasser (June 24, 1968–June 24, 1968), S1967-1968 #61: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (November 17, 1967–November 17, 1967), 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)