Ashes of bark - Specimen details

Ashes of bark - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 57006

Plant Name 58.02 CHRYSOBALANACEAE Licania octandra Entry Book Number 43.1850
Artefact Name Ashes of bark Vernacular Name
Iso Country Brazil TDWG Region Brazil
Parts Held Ashes of bark Geography Description Brazil, Para, Santarem
Uses Ashes of barkUse: MATERIALS - Wood User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS - Wood
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Spruce, Richard Donor No 9
Donor Date 22/07/1850 Donor Notes
Collector Spruce, Richard Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Source: Spruce, R. (1855) Domestic Uses. Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic Uses. (pp 31-61) and miscellaneous notes, p 38: Seems to give it peculiar qualities, the silen content in the bark, which supplies lack of sand in clay, renders pottery fireproof, t, hus yielding to a lighter than European crockery. There is a caraipe on Uaupes which when burnt leaves scarcely any of its ? . Pottery of Uaupes especially large panellas and ganabas (called tingas in Venezuela) are superior to any other and its exc, ellence is attributed to quality of clay but part of it is due to caraipe. The best cooking pottery on Manica, Crig and even at Fesno in Uaupes, that a good many pots are also used.
Determinations:58.02 CHRYSOBALANACEAE Licania octandra (Roemer & Schultes)Kuntze
    58.02 CHRYSOBALANACEAE Moquilea utilis Hook.f.

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