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potato


Entry Type:  
Species
Scientific Name:  
Common Name:  
potato
Myaamia Name:  
ahpena

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Myaamia Archival Sources  
Reference Source Reference Type Archival Data Comments
Gatschet, A.S. ca. 1895 Use - Food

In the traditional story of Young Thunder William Pecongah, he describes the crops he had growing on his land 160 acres of reserve in central Indiana.  "There I planted corn, wheat, potatoes, peas, tobacco, beans, apple trees, pumpkins, watermelons, cucumbers, onions, hay, straw, gooseberries, raspberries, blackberries, currants, turnips, tomatoes, pawpaws, cherries, strawberries, plums, blackhaws, peaches, walnut trees, pecans, hickory nuts, barley and rye".

Bush, L. L 1996 Use - Food

Human charred remains of Solanum sp. were recovered from an excavation at an early Myaamia Village at the forks of the Wabash River (Fort Wayne), 1795-1812 (Ehler Site).

Botanical Sources  
Reference Source Reference Type Data Comments
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Plant Database 2006 Habitat 

Cultivated potato cultivar, indigenous to Peru and Bolivia, grown in gardens and crop fields throughout eastern and western Myaamia lands; also occurs as an escape in eastern Myaamia lands but usually does not survive the winter,

No Reference Specified Related Info 

The term ahpena is also used for wild potato.

Related Sources  
Reference Source Reference Type Data Comments
Dunn, J.P. ca. 1900  

"potato, pan-ah"