Medicine

Plant Material

37631

From: United States of America | Montana | Fort Peck Reservation

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 37631
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Yankton | Dakota | Sioux
Provenience United States of America | Montana | Fort Peck Reservation
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Root
Description

"Menstrual root". I-tsna-ti-pa-zi-hu-ta (indigenous word for object name).

A clump of thin, tangled brown roots in a corked glass jar.

Credit Line John Wanamaker Expedition, 1900; R. Stewart Culin, 1900

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