Carrying basket - Specimen details

Carrying basket - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 73330

Plant Name 191.01 ARACEAE Heteropsis jenmani Entry Book Number 3.1995.1
Artefact Name Carrying basket Vernacular Name
Iso Country Brazil TDWG Region Brazil
Parts Held Carrying basket Geography Description Amazonas, Southern America, Brazil, Brazil North, Posto Yano
Uses Carrying basketUse: MATERIALS User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS
Storage Large shelving Related Items
Donor Donor No
Donor Date Donor Notes
Collector Milliken William Collector No 1
Collection Notes Collection Date 00/00/1994
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Carrying basket, used by women for firewood, bananas, cassava etc. Woven from the stripped and split aerial roots of Heteropsis jenmani Oliver (Araceae); dyed with the red aril of Bixa orellana L. (Bixaceae); designs drown on with a mixture of soot obtai, ned from the burning of Hymenaea (Leguminosae) resin and Bixa orellana aril. Bought in Boa Vista from a representative of CCPY, a health organisation working in the village where it was made.
Determinations:17.01 BIXACEAE Bixa orellana L.
    57.02 LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE Hymenaea sp
    191.01 ARACEAE Heteropsis jenmani Oliver

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