Implements used to collect Cassia bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 45476 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 143.01 LAURACEAE | Entry Book Number | 147.1882 | |
| Artefact Name | Implements used to collect Cassia bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Hong Kong | TDWG Region | Hong Kong | ||
| Parts Held | Implements used to collect Cassia bark | Geography Description | South China, Hong Kong | ||
| Uses | Implements used to collect Cassia barkUse: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Ford C | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 06/10/1882 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Three implements used in the collection and preparation of cassia bark. a. Knife used to make the longitudinal and traverse slits in the bark. b. Knife made of horn used to loosen the bark from the wood. c. Plane used to remove the outer, bark. Peeling of bark, and gathering of buds and leaves. When the trees are about 6 years old, the first crop of bark is obtained. The season for barking commences in March and continues until the end of May, after which the natives say the bark looses, its aroma and is therefore not removed from the trees. The branches, which are about an inch thick, being cut to within a few inches of the ground, are carried to houses or sheds in the vicinity of the plantations. All the small twigs and leaves being c, leared off, a large bladed knife, with the cutting edge something like the end of a budding knife, is used to make two longitudinal slits, and 3 or 4 incisions, at 16 ins apart, round the circumference through the bark; the bark is then loosened by passi, ng underneath it a kind of slightly curved horn knife with the two edges slightly sharpened. Pieces of bark 16 ins long and half the circumference are thus obtained. The bark, after its removal and while it is still moist with sap, is then laid with the, concave side downwards and a small plane passed over it and the epidermis removed. After this operation the bark is left to dry for about 24 hours and then tied up in bundles about 18 inches in diameter and sent in to the merchants' houses in the marked t, owns | ||||