Rubber Shoe - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 44195 | |||||
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Plant Name | 151.01 EUPHORBIACEAE Hevea sp. | Entry Book Number | 98.1898 | |
| Artefact Name | Rubber Shoe | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Rubber Shoe | Geography Description | Amazon Region | ||
| Uses | Rubber ShoeUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Consul Churchill, Foreign Office | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 06/04/1898 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Rubber shoe made in the Amazon region of best Para Rubber. About the middle of the 19th century this rubber was almost entirely exported from Brazil in the shape of shoes like this sample. The practise has since been discontinued.x0Dx0APlants +, People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew. May 1998 to May 2016. | ||||