Bulbs eaten green or dried and ground to flour, a brown skin has been rubbed off

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Object Number 09-8-10/75041

Display Title Bulbs eaten green or dried and ground to flour, a brown skin has been rubbed off

Descriptions

Indigenous Term Geep sin

Inventory Description Braid of prarie turnip, tinsula

Classification

Floral

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Sioux

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

North America

Materials Bulb

Dimensions Overall: 70 x 8 x 8 cm (27 9/16 x 3 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 75041

Provenance

Collector Rev. J. W. Millar (1895-1909)

Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1909)

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