Brushes from Piassaba fibre - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 35783 | |||||
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Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Leopoldinia piassaba | Entry Book Number | 49.1851 | |
| Artefact Name | Brushes from Piassaba fibre | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Brushes from Piassaba fibre | Geography Description | Brazil, Amazonas, Barra de Rio Negro | ||
| Uses | Brushes from Piassaba fibreUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Spruce, Richard | Donor No | 102 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | No: 77x0Dx0A | |||
| Collector | Spruce, Richard | Collector No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Stored in 2 boxesx0Dx0ALabel source: 4 brooms made of Piassaba fibre. Tree 15' 2.5' rarely quite erect; bark peeling off in narrow strips. Forest and capoeiras, Barra de Rio Negro.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ASource: Museum Entry Book 1847-55: Five brooms of piassaba, made by Indian, s on the Rio Negro. Two of these are wrapped at the end with piassaba itself: one is wrapped with Timbo titca, on with Jacatara (the stem of a twining, prickly palm probably Desmoncus polyacanthos), one with uaruma (Calathea sp.) The largest requires a h, andle- the others used without. | ||||