POISONED Arrows - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 35776 | |||||
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Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Oenocarpus bataua | Entry Book Number | 49.1851 | |
| Artefact Name | POISONED Arrows | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | POISONED Arrows | Geography Description | Brazil, Amazonas, Barra de Rio Negro, Rio dos Purus | ||
| Uses | POISONED ArrowsUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Spruce, Richard | Donor No | 77 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1851 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Spruce, Richard | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Arrows made of nerves of sheathing base of petioles of Patana, which, remaining when parenchyma decays, forms a sort of beard on trunk. They are called Ararcicohi by Catauixi Indians and poison called Arimiliho (in Lingua Geral Uirare). I, t is customary to make them up into bundles such as I send you. | ||||
| Determinations: | 187.00 PALMAE Jessenia bataua (Mart.) Burret 187.00 PALMAE Oenocarpus bataua Mart. | ||||