Sassafras Bark In Chips (1 Package)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1884
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: ""Two bundles of sassafras from the Indians used both by Indians and whites as a Diphoretic" - Dr. Palmer's Notes."
label: Notes
content: Albert Naquin, Traditional Chief; Boyo Billiot, Deputy Chief; Chantel Comardelle, Tribal Secretary; and Heather Stone, collaborator; made the following comments during the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, October 23-27, 2017. Boyo notes that they use leaves of the sassafras tree to make gumbo filet. Albert and Boyo tell the group that they used to use sassafras to make a tea approximately every 3 to 4 months to flush them out and keep healthy.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Mobile, Near, Mobile County, Alabama, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Choctaw
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 014255
label: USNM Number
content: E91514-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Botanical