Marantaceous petiole strainerUse: MATERIALS - Wood User: Man
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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.