Fibre - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 34954 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Astrocaryum vulgare | Entry Book Number | 21.1914 | |
| Artefact Name | Fibre | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Fibre | Geography Description | Brazil, Bahia | ||
| Uses | FibreUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Nelson JP | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: The fibre is from the leaf of a palm, apparently a sp belonging to the Cocoineae. The sample is identical with or at any rate very close to, a specimen of Tucum in the Kew Museum. According to Wiesner, Tucum fibre appears to be prepared f, rom both A. ayri and A vulgare. A specimen of a fibre received at Kew from GH Pethybridge of Dublin in 1913 may perhaps be the same thing as the present sample. At the time I suggested Bactris or Martinezia LaB 23.1.14 | ||||