Native Spun Twine - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 30021 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 175.18 PHORMIACEAE Phormium tenax | Entry Book Number | 2.1897 | |
| Artefact Name | Native Spun Twine | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | New Zealand | TDWG Region | New Zealand | ||
| Parts Held | Native Spun Twine | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Native Spun TwineUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Colenso W | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 08/01/1897 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: No. 1 is about 50 years old. No. 2 is more than 60 years, it was used for attaching to the small under aprons of girls. For Kew, native spun twine 50 years old! July 1895 Found in box minerals. Curious and unique specimen of cord or string, more than 60 years old. See its history/Trans. N. Zealand Instit. Vol. XXIV p. 466. This has ever excited great interest, my little reel of it has been shown at all our Southern Exhibitions. (Extract from letter of W Colenso to Director dated Napier 19.8., 96) No. 2 This specimen of cord I value highly - my little lot (a few more yards) I obtained from E. Cape Natives nearly 60 years ago (1837): no other European has ever seen it, I spared a yard of it to a foreign nobleman (tourist) a few years ago. | ||||