Seeds From Sitka, Alaska Item Number: ET17127-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
3149 WRONG NUMBER. 3 SEEDS FROM SITKA, ALASKA FROM MRS. COHEN; NOTE THAT THEY COULD BE DESTROYED 1905. Label from original container with artifacts: "3149 Sitka, Alaska, June 1880, Mrs. Cohen. Used as food by the Indians. They are said by Mrs. C. to taste like sweet potatoes when boiled. Parasitic plant. - Dr. Hough." Museum notes with artifacts include a brief one from a Dr. Rose to W.F. Wight asking if the seeds should be kept, and Wight's note of reply of Feb. 9, 1905 identifying the specimens as Boschniakia rossica Cham. + Schlecht. [Northern Groundcone, parasitic on the roots of trees] and noting that they are "hardly worth keeping as we have a number of good ones."
Item History
- Made in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Mrs. Cohen ? in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Received during 1991
What
- Name
- Seeds From Sitka, Alaska
- Identification Number
- ET17127-0
- Type of Item
- botanical
Who
- Field Collector
- Mrs. Cohen ?
- Received from
- “No Information” ?
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1991
Other
- Accession Number
- 999999