Acorns

Museum number:

1-10863

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010010863

Alternate number:

870 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.264, Acc.265, and Acc.266

Object count:

100

Description:

Shelled.

Donor:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Drum Valley, Fresno County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Tulare; Drum Valley

Culture or time period:

Yokuts

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

February 1907

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Acorns

Function:

8.1 Foods

Accession date:

1907

Context of use:

Ready for grinding to make acorn meal.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Comment:

Piece count on card: "1", description is plural. Native name: acorn species called "toxit" which occurs only in the higher mountains.

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