Vessel made from bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 37799 | |||||
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Plant Name | 58.02 CHRYSOBALANACEAE Licania octandra | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Vessel made from bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Vessel made from bark | Geography Description | Brazil, Para | ||
| Uses | Vessel made from barkUse: MATERIALS - Wood User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Wood | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Spruce, Richard | Donor No | |||
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| Collector | Spruce, Richard | Collector No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Kew Journal of Botany Vol 2, 1850, p.73.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ASource: 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 sup, plies 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 (calledti, ngas 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, Crig and 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. | ||||