Powder prepared from fruit head - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 34853 | |||||
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| No Image | 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 | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| 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. | ||||