Marantaceous petiole strainer - Specimen details

Marantaceous petiole strainer - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 38687

Plant Name 170.03 MARANTACEAE Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Marantaceous petiole strainer Vernacular Name
Iso Country Brazil TDWG Region Brazil
Parts Held Marantaceous petiole strainer Geography Description Brazil, Para
Uses Marantaceous petiole strainerUse: MATERIALS - Wood User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS - Wood
Storage Extra-large shelving Related Items
Donor Spruce, Richard Donor No
Donor Date Donor Notes
Collector Spruce, Richard Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
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Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: Petiole of a Marantaceous plant of which the Tipiti or Mandiocca strainer is made.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ASource: Spruce, R. (1855) Culture of Mandiocca and preparation of farinha on R. Negro. Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic uses (pp 31-61) and miscellaneous not, es, p 23: The [cassava] dough is then strained by putting into a long bag of plaited strips of waruma, with a loop at each end, the lower loop being passed over the end of a fixed tough pole and the upper over the pint of another pole serving as a lever b, y means of which it is stretched out to double its original length and all the liquid parts of the dough run into the interices? and it is received into a vessel placed beneath.

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