Substance found of Leaves and Flowers - Specimen details

Substance found of Leaves and Flowers - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 46258

Plant Name 123.00 MYOPORACEAE Eremophila fraseri Entry Book Number 38.1890
Artefact Name Substance found of Leaves and Flowers Vernacular Name
Iso Country Australia TDWG Region Australia
Parts Held Substance found of Leaves and Flowers Geography Description Western Australia
Uses Substance found of Leaves and FlowersUse: MATERIALS User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Phytologic Museum of Melbourne Donor No
Donor Date 00/00/1889 Donor Notes Mueller Baron F vonx0Dx0A
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: It is beaten into a mass, heated over a fire, and used by the aborigines as a cement for fixing portions of their tools together. The aborigines of W Australia collect the young leaves and flower buds of this plant, beat them up into a mass, , heat that over a fire in order to obtain a sticky substance for fixing portions of their tools to each other. Mossingham (WE). Likely to be used for fixing sharp stones to their weapons.

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