Melon, Diseased

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Title

Melon, Diseased

Subject

UMMAA cat #15411

Description

Scientific Name: Unknown (family name: CUCURBITACEAE)
Hopi Name from 1935 field notes: Pa 3 yao 3 (Small pox). The melons have the small pox
Source of Seeds: Son in Moencopi
Properties and Use: If it rains as the melons are getting ripe and the hot sun hits it, the small pox forms. Does not come every year. Have had it from year to year. Seems to strike worse in different locations and varieties.

Source

Orayvi
Navajo County, AZ

Date

October 22, 1935

Contributor

Alfred Whiting, Volney Jones, Edmund Nequatewa

Relation

Museum of Northern Arizona cat B.1788