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Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
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Item Title
Ginseng plant leaves turn a distinctive pale yellow in the fall. [Photo]
Author/Creator
Photographer: Eiler, Lyntha Scott
Created/Published
September 27, 1995
Notes
Since the 17th century, when a Jesuit priest in Canada identified ginseng (Panax quinquefolia) as a root prized in Asia and therefore exportable, ginseng has provided an annual source of cash for people living in the mountains. Wild ginseng, which commands prices ranging from $300 to $600 a pound, dried, continues to supplement incomes in the mountains. The largest quantities of wild ginseng in the country are harvested from the mixed mesophytic forest region centered around West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Event: Ginseng Hunting.
Subjects
Fall
September
Gathering (commercial use)
Commercial gathering
Ginseng (Panax quinquefolia)
Photo
Ethnography
Photographs
Tom's Hollow
Whitesville, WV
Object Type
Medium
35 mm Color Slide
Language
English
Call Number
CRF-LE-C011-12
Part of
The Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)
Repository
Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
afccmns lec01112
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afccmns.lec01112