Talk:Pelliot 121 (1906)

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Pelliot 121 (1906) is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

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Evidentiary scope

The label places the plant at Kachgar in October 1906 and gives its flowers as pale yellow. It gives no habitat, use or note on cultivation. The accession is classified Other and no conservation priority is assigned.

Label reading

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• Museum label (printed, completed by hand): HERB. MUS. PARIS. / Cannabis sativa L. / Oct 06. Kachgar / fl. jaune clair / 121 / ASIE CENTRALE / MISSION PELLIOT-VAILLANT (1906-8) / Reçu en fév. 1909.
• Slip. 121, at the lower left.

Georeferencing

The point 39.47, 75.99 is the city of Kashgar, OpenStreetMap node 244081035 (39.46660, 75.99001); the Wikidata item for Kashgar (Q170521) carries the label's spelling Kachgar as an alias. The label names the town, and the oasis around it may be meant. The point stands for the town, with an uncertainty that takes in the oasis close round it. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 15 km.

Editorial treatment

Date. Oct 06 is read as October 1906, the first year of the mission the label names. The article and the infobox give the month the label gives; the catalogue's different month is set out under Source discrepancies.

Collectors. Paul Pelliot (1878–1945), the sinologist, led the mission; Louis Vaillant (1876–1963), an army doctor, was its physician, topographer and naturalist (English and French Wikipedia; Harvard botanist index). He is not the Paris museum zoologist Léon Vaillant (1834–1914). The mission left Paris on 17 June 1906 and reached Kashgar at the end of August 1906 (English Wikipedia). The collector field takes the first name on the label, Pelliot; the prose links both men.

Source discrepancies

• Collection month. GBIF occurrence 731738819, the Muséum's catalogue entry for the sheet, gives the event date as 1906-06-01/1906-06-30, that is June 1906. The handwritten line on the museum label reads Oct 06. Kachgar, that is October 1906. The article and the infobox give October 1906, the month written on the sheet. The mission left Paris on 17 June 1906 and reached Kashgar at the end of August 1906 (English Wikipedia).

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 04:49, 14 October 2026 (+07)