Root

Museum number:

1-752

Permalink:

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Alternate number:

2752 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.13

Object count:

1

Description:

Medicine root.

Donor:

John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Round Valley, Mendocino County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

Wailaki, Round Valley

Culture or time period:

Wailaki

Collector:

Philip Mills Jones

Collection date:

July 1901

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Botanical remains

Function:

8.2 Medicine and Hygiene

Accession date:

August 1901

Context of use:

For stomach pains; also poison for stupefying fish.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

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