Vulpinic acid

Description

A natural yellow dye extracted from wolf lichen (Letharia vulpina). Vulpinic acid (C19H14O5) has been used by Northwest Coast First Peoples for dyeing porcupine quills and wool. It was identified by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry in yellow wool in the MFA's Chilkat Dancing Blanket (#2008.650)

Wolf lichen (Letharia vulpina)

Sources Checked for Data in Record

George Thornton Emmons, The Tlingit Indians, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 1991.
Leonard Soltzberg, internal report

Vulpinic acid

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Vulpinic acid

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