POISONED Arrows - Specimen details

POISONED Arrows - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 35776

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.

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