Marantaceous petiole strainer - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 38688 | |||||
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Plant Name | 170.03 MARANTACEAE | Entry Book Number | 86.1849 | |
| 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 | 30 | ||
| 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: Tipiti Mandiocca strainer made of the petiole of a Marantaceous plant. Stem of Maruma-miti (?) Petiole of a Marantaceous plant of which the Mandiocca strainer is made. Entry Book; Made by the Indians of Tauau.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ASource: Spruce, R. (1855)C, ulture of Mandiocca and preparation of farinha on R. Negro. Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic uses (pp31-61) and miscellaneous notes, p23: 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 by means of which it is stretched out to double its original length and all the liquid parts of the dough run into the interices? an, d it is received into a vessel placed beneath. | ||||