Snuff - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 68789 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 51.01 SAPINDACEAE Zanha africana | Entry Book Number | 29.1991 | |
| Artefact Name | Snuff | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Zambia | TDWG Region | Zambia | ||
| Parts Held | Snuff | Geography Description | Zambia | ||
| Uses | SnuffUse: SOCIAL USES - Smoking Materials/Drugs User: Man | TDWG use | SOCIAL USES - Smoking Materials/Drugs | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Klockner Peter (purchased by) | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/01/1990 | Donor Notes | Pope Gerald, RBG Kew Date: 00/00/1991x0Dx0A | ||
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| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Note - from PE Owen ASO Wing A Herbarium, To Museum, I hope you are interested in this snuff produced from the roots of Z. africana. The letter enclosed, to Gerald Pope, gives a little infomation on the snuff. Please note that in the letter, 'Nyanga-lady' is probably a misspelling of Nganga-lady the local name for a herbalist. Letter to G Pope dated 10 Jan 1990 from P Klockner - Dear Mr Pope, I hope I have to bother you for only one more time with specimen from me. I fail to classify the pla, nts of which the dried samples were sent with this mail. The 'Sneeze root tree' is quite a rare specimen from which a Nyanga-lady produces a snuff very irritating to the nose with a slight horseradish flavour. It is gained from scrapings from dried root., I did not collect any flowers or fresh roots of the tree. The branches resemble Zahna (sic) africana but in other ways it does not fit the description. It grows into a large Brachystegia like tree with offspring developing nearby. | ||||