Using this catalog

The collections (see tab above) group the items in the archive by the location where the plants were collected, specifically the three Hopi Mesas. The tags can be used to view items by plant type (e.g. corn, beans), from a specific Hopi village, or a collecting expedition.

In the field notes, Hopi name for the plant was often recorded phonetically.  For some of the specimens, an orthography was used. The symbols used were limited to characters available on a typewriter. For example,  a "3" to represent the "ir" sound in girl (see Whiting's 1939 Ethnobotany of the Hopi for further explanation).  For some of the plants, information was clarified by a Hopi community memgber working with Jones and Whiting and noted in the notes.  Example: "(Edmund)" was used to indicate when Edmund Nequatewa had added or clarified information on the plant inventory forms used during the 1935 Hopi Crop Survey (see history tab).

There are a few items where problems are noted by using the phrase “Plant record information from 1935 field notes does not match the UMMAA cataloged item.”  For these items, the image of the catalogued item does not fit the description in the museum records.  This mix-up appears to have occurred when University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology catalog numbers where put on the objects, probably when they were originally cataloged into the Museum's ethnobotanical collections in the 1930s.