Rope - Specimen details

Rope - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 35010

Plant Name 187.00 PALMAE Astrocaryum vulgare Entry Book Number 49.1851
Artefact Name Rope Vernacular Name
Iso Country Brazil TDWG Region Brazil
Parts Held Rope Geography Description Brazil, Amazonas, Barra de Rio Negro
Uses RopeUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS - Fibres
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Spruce, Richard Donor No 66
Donor Date 00/00/1851 Donor Notes
Collector Spruce, Richard Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: Cord of Tucum. The fibre is merely the leaves of the young shoots, torn into shreds, Barra de Rio Negro.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ASource: Spruce, R. (1855) Domestic Uses. Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic uses (pp 31-61) and miscellaneous notes, p 60: Strips of youn, g leaflets woven into hats and mats.

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