Cigar support - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 46604 | |||||
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Plant Name | 120.01 BIGNONIACEAE Tecoma sp | Entry Book Number | 19.1853 | |
| Artefact Name | Cigar support | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Cigar support | Geography Description | Brazil, Amazonas, Rio Uaupes | ||
| Uses | Cigar supportUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Spruce, Richard | Donor No | 142 | ||
| Donor Date | 12/03/1853 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Spruce, Richard | Collector No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Source: Museum Entry Book 1847-55, p206: Instrument shaped like tuning fork used for supporting the great cigars smoked on state occasions. The sharp end is stuck into the ground and the Tuchaua (being seated on the bauquinho (stool)) supports his cigar, of 18 inches or more in length between the forks. Carving coloured red with tana.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ASource: Spruce, R. (1855) Domestic Uses. Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic uses (pp31-61) and miscellaneous notes, p57. : Cigar holder on Uaupés made of this wood.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ADispl, ayed in 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection of wooden objects and rare timbers from EBC) | ||||