Medicine
Plant Material
37631
From: United States of America | Montana | Fort Peck Reservation
Curatorial Section: American
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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