Brushes from Piassaba fibre - Specimen details

Brushes from Piassaba fibre - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 35783

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
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
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.

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