Wooden chopping board - Specimen details

Wooden chopping board - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 73569

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Plant Name 101.01 SAPOTACEAE Baillonella toxisperma Entry Book Number 37.1995.17
Artefact Name Wooden chopping board Vernacular Name
Iso Country Cameroon TDWG Region Cameroon
Parts Held Wooden chopping board Geography Description Cameroon, Africa, West-Central Tropical Africa, Ombe
Uses Wooden chopping boardUse: MATERIALS - Wood User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS - Wood
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Mwake F (Preswood) Donor No
Donor Date Donor Notes
Collector Rumball N Collector No 44
Collection Notes Collection Date 10/10/1995
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Chopping board made from 9 woods - see multiples page - purchased from the Preswood factory at Ombe (Run by Presbyterian Church). Local children and young adults are taken on for 4 year apprenticeships. Factory produces furniture for local schools and c, hurches and also produces tourist items for visitors. Woods are obtained from local sources, and are sometimes purchased in small quantities from locals. One of wood unnamed - local name zebrano - striped wood.
Determinations:43.01 MELIACEAE Entandrophragma cylindricum
    57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Pterocarpus soyauxii
    57.02 LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE Detarium senegalense
    57.02 LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE Guibourtia tessmannii
    57.02 LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE Tetraberlinia bifoliolata (Harms) Hauman
    66.00 COMBRETACEAE Terminalia ivorensis
    101.01 SAPOTACEAE Baillonella toxisperma Pierre.
    153.05 MORACEAE Milicia excelsa

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