Rubber Mat - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 100161 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 151.01 EUPHORBIACEAE Hevea brasiliensis | Entry Book Number | 14.2018 | |
| Artefact Name | Rubber Mat | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Rubber Mat | Geography Description | Belem | ||
| Uses | Rubber MatUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Milliken, William | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 12/09/2018 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Milliken, William | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/08/2018 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Made from native rubber and natural dyes in the form of a lily pad. The rubber, from preserved rubber trees, is mixed with fibres and vegetable colourings, combining popular wisdom techniques and simplified industrial technologies. x0Dx0AThe product is handcr, afted, made by the populations who inhabit Amazonia to improve their livlihood, and to help with the biodiversity's conservation, reduction in deforestation and maintenance of the living forest. | ||||