Bowls made of clay and bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 37794 | |||||
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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 | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| 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. | ||||