Mesquite Meal Or Dough
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: E. Palmer
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TRANSFERRED TO THE DEPT. OF BOTANY 3/16/71, SAMPLE RETAINED IN THE DEPT. OF ANTHROPOLOGY." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "MESQUITE MEAL.---PREPARED BY POUNDING THE PODS OF PROSOPIS JULIFLORA. FROM THIS MEAL BREAD IS MADE AS DESCRIBED UNDER 21,797; OR IT MAY BE MIXED WITH WATER, MAKING A COLD PORRIDGE, WHICH IS EATEN IN LARGE QUANTITIES. A COOKED MUSH IS ALSO MADE OF IT. FROM THE COAHUILA INDIANS, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1876. 21,796. COLLECTED BY DR. E. PALMER."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Feb 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cahuilla
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005334
label: USNM Number
content: E21796-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Food