Ok-hô cloth - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 43509 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 153.02 ULMACEAE Celtis sp. | Entry Book Number | 75A.1892 | |
| Artefact Name | Ok-hô cloth | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Ok-hô cloth | Geography Description | Great Nicobar | ||
| Uses | Ok-hô clothUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Dr Prain, Herbarium, Calcutta | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 10/06/1892 | Donor Notes | Edward Horace Man, Deputy Supt. Port Blair | ||
| Collector | Man EH | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Worn as a skirt by the native women during the mourning period. Many of the women wear it regularly when unable to procure cotton cloth from their coast neighbours. The cloth is obtained after some hours labour spent in soaking a large stri, p of the bark in a stream and beating it on both sides with a suitable smooth round stone till the pulpy substance has been removed, after which it is dried in the sun. A sample is herewith sent - In his remarks on the flora of the Nicobar Isls. Mr Diedri, chsen wrote as follows; Finally the coral land is interrupted occasionally by rocks projecting into the reef, which is inundated during floodtide. Here the elevated seabeach does not exist; and the almost bare rocks are characterised by a very common Casu, arina and also a Callicarpa and a Sponia / Celtis vestimentaria. See selection from the records of the Govt of India, Home Dept No lxxvii. 1870 Papers realting to the Nicobar Islands p 189. EH Man, Dept Supt. Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Port Blair.x0Dx0AEntr, y Book: Sample of 'Ok-hô', cloth prepared from the bark of (the Lanôp tree) Celtis vestimentaria Kamphövener by the inland tribe (known by the name of the Shom Pen) of great Nicobar. | ||||