МАЭ № 3235-5

Bundle of grass

Kodiak Eskimos

first half of 19th century

plant fiber

length 14.5 cm, width 2.5 cm

“On Sutkhum Island there grows a root which the Koniags call shishkuk. This plant has a very short stem with four or five oblong shaped leaves. Shishkuk has a pleasant smell; they smoke it, and mothers drink warm water infused with it.” (Davydov 1813:83)

Ethnography of America