Seeds (owin), used as food. The main component of the specimen consists of achenes of Madia elegans D. Don ex Lindl., common madia, Asteraceae. Note: According to the treatment in Hickman, J. C., 1993, The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California, University of California Press, M. elegans is highly variable and intermediates blur distinction among extremes. Other items found and placed in gelatin capsules: 45 achenes of Ranunculus californicus Benth., California buttercup, Ranunculaceae; 7 florets of Vulpia microstachys (Nutt.) Munro, small fescue, Poaceae; 7 seeds of Dichelostemma capitatum (Benth.) Alph. Wood, bluedicks, Themidaceae (also placed in Alliaceae or Liliaceae); 2 nutlets of Amsinckia sp., fiddleneck, Boraginaceae; 1 seed of Luzula comosa E. Mey., Pacific woodrush, Juncaceae; 1 achene of Potentilla glandulosa Lindl., sticky cinquefoil cf. USDA Plants Database [Drymocallis glandulosa (Lindl.) Rydb. cf. nomenclature based on USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http: //www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/tax_search.pl (07 July 2009)], Rosaceae; 1 seed of Trifolium sp., possibly T. obtusiflorum Hook. & Arn., clammy clover, creek clover, or sour-salt clover , Fabaceae 1 seed of Triteleia ixioides (W. T. Aiton) Greene, yellow-brodiaea or prettyface, Themidaceae (also placed in Alliaceae or Liliaceae).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Picayune rancheria, Madera County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
from the Chukchansi at Picyuna (Katanin) 5 m from coarse Gold, Madera county.
Culture or time period:
Chukchansi
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
January 8-17, 1904
Taxon:
Amsinckia and Ranunculus californicus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical samples
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Used as food.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Piece count on card: "1", description is plural. Native name: "Owin".
Loans:
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)