Fibre - Specimen details

Fibre - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 34954

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Plant Name 187.00 PALMAE Astrocaryum vulgare Entry Book Number 21.1914
Artefact Name Fibre Vernacular Name
Iso Country Brazil TDWG Region Brazil
Parts Held Fibre Geography Description Brazil, Bahia
Uses FibreUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS - Fibres
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Donor Nelson JP Donor No
Donor Date Donor Notes
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
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Notes: Label source: The fibre is from the leaf of a palm, apparently a sp belonging to the Cocoineae. The sample is identical with or at any rate very close to, a specimen of Tucum in the Kew Museum. According to Wiesner, Tucum fibre appears to be prepared f, rom both A. ayri and A vulgare. A specimen of a fibre received at Kew from GH Pethybridge of Dublin in 1913 may perhaps be the same thing as the present sample. At the time I suggested Bactris or Martinezia LaB 23.1.14

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