Fibre - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 43725 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 153.01 URTICACEAE Maoutia puya | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Fibre | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Fibre | Geography Description | Kumaon | ||
| Uses | FibreUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Bellairs JG | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1880 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Report on Pooah fibre - vol 6 1848, Agri Hort Soc, Calcutta old series. The pooah fibre of Nepal and Sikkim brought to notice of Dr Campbell, Supt of Darjeeling by Sargeant Crutchen a worker in leather who considered it equal to Russian, hemp for boot and saddle work. Uses. Fishing lines, game bags, twine, rope, sailcloth, sacs may be prepared on a large scale at 4/- etc. I can add that fibre withstands water well. (Label ripped down side- only partly legible.) | ||||