Muzzle to prevent sheep eating Aconite - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 40785 | |||||
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Plant Name | 200.00 POACEAE | Entry Book Number | 29.1882 | |
| Artefact Name | Muzzle to prevent sheep eating Aconite | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Muzzle to prevent sheep eating Aconite | Geography Description | Sikkim, Bhutan-Sikkim, Indian Subcontinent, Asia Tropical | ||
| Uses | Muzzle to prevent sheep eating AconiteUse: MATERIALS User: Sheep | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Elwes HJ | Donor No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Made of the Hill Bamboo, which grows in Sikkim at from 8000 to 10,000 feet elevation. When the shepherds have to cross the open pastures where Aconite grows, they halt, and a muzzle is made for each sheep, to prevent it eating the Aconite., No actual Aconitum present with muzzle | ||||
| Determinations: | 1.01 RANUNCULACEAE Aconitum sp 200.00 POACEAE | ||||