Powder prepared from fruit head - Specimen details

Powder prepared from fruit head - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 34853

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Plant Name 188.00 PANDANACEAE Pandanus sp Entry Book Number 29.1878
Artefact Name Powder prepared from fruit head Vernacular Name
Iso Country Kiribati TDWG Region Kiribati
Parts Held Powder prepared from fruit head Geography Description Gilbert Group
Uses Powder prepared from fruit headUse: FOOD User: Man TDWG use FOOD
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Donor Powell The Rev T Donor No
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Notes: Label source: Powder prepared from the inner soft part of the fruit head the 'Kapupu' or Pandanus powder. A staple article of food in the Gilbert Group. Mode of preparation, cut off the inner soft part of the Pandanus fruit heads, bake in an oven of hot., ... beat it out into cakes .... harden over the fire break it up into small pieces, pound with a stone in a large plain shell: roll a mat round a large piece of round wood, withdraw the piece of wood, put the powder into the cylinder, thus formed, and w, ell fasten. It will keep good for years, T.Powell, Samoa Dec.1877.

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