Food Root
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Nov 1899
name: label: Collector
content: Miss E. T. Houtz
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CAMASS ROOTS DRIED (4)."
label: Notes
content: Valerie Switzler and Shayleen Macy of the Wasco delegation from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs made these comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit Aug 31-Sept 4, 2015. This is a highly fibrous food, you can only eat so much of it. Valerie identified it as not 'camas', but as 'biscuit root' which is 'wachxan' in Kiksht. Kiksht is the language of the Wasco tribe. Biscuitroot comes from the genus Lomatium, family Apiaceae. Camas comes from the genus Camassia, family Asparagaceae. Both have starchy, fibrous root bulbs that have been used as food by the Wasco, but they are not the same.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Mar 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Warm Springs (Tenino)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035837
label: USNM Number
content: E204242-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Botanical