Bowls made of clay and bark - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 37794
	Plant Name	58.02 CHRYSOBALANACEAE Licania octandra	Entry Book Number	86.1849
	Artefact Name	Bowls made of clay and bark	Vernacular Name
	Iso Country	Brazil	TDWG Region	Brazil
	Parts Held	Bowls made of clay and bark	Geography Description	Brazil, Para
	Uses	Bowls made of clay and barkUse: MATERIALS - Wood User: Man	TDWG use	MATERIALS - Wood
	Storage	Bottles, boxes etc	Related Items
	Donor	Spruce, Richard	Donor No	19
	Donor Date	28/12/1849	Donor Notes
	Collector	Spruce, Richard	Collector No
	Collection Notes		Collection Date
	Exhibition		Expedition
	Number Components		Publication
	Notes:	Label source: Vessels of half fine clay and half powdered [burnt] bark. Labels on the base indicate that both are Spruce's. Kew Journal of Botany Vol. 2, p. 73, 1850. (Other label says 'Potteryware made at Camuta, from the earthy bark of a tree which is, burnt, ground and mixed with a small quantity of clay to make it consistent. Capt. Sir E Home RN.) Originally Moquilea utilis Hook. f.x0Dx0ASource: Spruce, R. (1855) Domestic Uses. Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic Uses. (pp 31-61) and miscellaneous notes, p 38:, Seems to give it peculiar qualities, to silen content in the bark, which supplies lack of sand in clay, renders pottery fireproof, thus yielding to a lighter than European crockery. There is a caraipe on Uaupes which when burnt leaves scarcely any of, its ? . Pottery of Uaupes especially large panellas and ganabas (called tingas in Venezuela) are superior to any other and its excellence is attributed to quality of clay but part of it is due to caraipe. The best cooking pottery on Manica, Crigand, even at Fesno in Uaupes, that a good many pots are also used.
	Determinations:	58.02 CHRYSOBALANACEAE Licania octandra (Roemer & Schultes)Kuntze     58.02 CHRYSOBALANACEAE Moquilea utilis Hook.f.

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