Fruits and native humming top - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 42736 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 153.05 MORACEAE Antiaris turbinifera | Entry Book Number | 41.1893 | |
| Artefact Name | Fruits and native humming top | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Solomon Islands | TDWG Region | Solomon Islands | ||
| Parts Held | Fruits and native humming top | Geography Description | Solomon Islands | ||
| Uses | Fruits and native humming topUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Comins Rev RB | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 10/03/1893 | Donor Notes | Herb. Kew | ||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: .... fruit a single spherical seed with a natural orifice at one end. The natives bore holes at right angles to this and insert a stick for a peg and then spin it with a double string, and it hums like a top. The two ends of the string must, be pulled in an opposite direction and the top spins ... downwards | ||||