Pink and White Cow Bean

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Title

Pink and White Cow Bean

Subject

UMMAA cat #15447

Description

Scientific Name: Phaseolus vulgaris
Hopi Name from 1935 field notes: Wa kas mori (cow bean). Like old type stock. Because it is a pinto. Spanish:Vaca-cow
Source of Seeds: Old Type Hopi, Pure strain. Mixture of some white bean in it
Remarks: Just another bean

Source

Orayvi
Navajo County, AZ

Date

October 29, 1935

Contributor

Alfred Whiting, Volney Jones, Edmund Nequatewa

Relation

Museum of Northern Arizona cat B.1823a

2014 UM Museum Anthropology students' blog post discussing what they learned about this item from contemporary Hopi community members.