Meadow

Meadow (HM22YO)

Location: Washington, DC 20024
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Country: United States of America
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N 38° 53.279', W 77° 1.023'

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This museum's meadow environment consists of abundant grasses, wildflowers, and shrubs. The plants are perennials, growing or lying dormant with the seasons.

Plant Medicine
Meadows are important sources of medicinal plants used by traditional healers, who give thanks for the plant through an offering of tobacco, song, and prayer. Plants are considered by some tribes to the hairs of Mother Earth.

Native peoples developed medicines from a variety of plants and trees and introduced these treatments to the world. Modern pharmacology (the science of drugs) began when the medicine quinine was brought from Peru to Europe in the 1600s. Named for the Quechua word for cinchona tree bark (quina), quinine has long been used by Native peoples to kill the parasites that cause malaria.
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HM NumberHM22YO
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Placed ByNational Museum of the American Indian
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Date Added Friday, November 17th, 2017 at 7:04am PST -08:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18S E 325057 N 4306279
Decimal Degrees38.88798333, -77.01705000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 53.279', W 77° 1.023'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 53' 16.74" N, 77° 1' 1.38" W
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Area Code(s)202, 301
Closest Postal AddressAt or near , Washington DC 20024, US
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