Quiver with POISON arrows. - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 35161 | |||||
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Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Jessenia bataua | Entry Book Number | 49.1851 | |
| Artefact Name | Quiver with POISON arrows. | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Quiver with POISON arrows. | Geography Description | Brazil, Amazonas, Barra de Rio Negro | ||
| Uses | Quiver with POISON arrows.Use: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Spruce, Richard | Donor No | 77 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1851 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Spruce, Richard | Collector No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Quiver made of the leaves of Attalea sp., containing poisoned arrows for the 'gravatano' or blow-pipe made of the beard of the 'Patana' Palm, Oenocarpus Bataua Mart. Rio Pacimoni, Rio Negro. 183. Arrows of Sheathing bases of petioles.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ASo, urce: Museum Entry Book 1847-55: Made of sipo-gambe-cima (wood not bark) and thickly smeared with resin of jutali (Hymenaea sp.). The arrows are made of the Pataná which remaining when parenchyma decays forms a sort of beard on trunk. They are called by, the Catauxi Indians, Asosaicohi and the poison with which they are smeared asinuliha. It is customary to make them up in bundles such as I send to you. When the Indian goes a hunting he takes out as many arrows as he is likely to want, anoints the poin, ts with uirare and wraps lower end with samauma cotton to the thickness of the base of Gravatano. | ||||
| Determinations: | 187.00 PALMAE Oenocarpus bataua Mart. 187.00 PALMAE Jessenia bataua (Mart.) Burret | ||||