Arrow Poison - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 49471 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 106.00 APOCYNACEAE Acokanthera schimperi | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Arrow Poison | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Kenya | TDWG Region | Kenya | ||
| Parts Held | Arrow Poison | Geography Description | Kenya | ||
| Uses | Arrow PoisonUse: VERTEBRATE POISONS User: Not defined | TDWG use | VERTEBRATE POISONS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Napier Miss | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1930 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Specimens sent by Miss Napier to Major Chipp, letter dated East Africa and Uganda Natural History Soc, Coryndon Memorial Museum, Nairobi, Kenya Colony, July 25 1930 Wagiriama Poison for poaching - Enclosing letter and list from the Game War, den Nairobi of samples of poison trees. 1. Thinga (?) or Uli ya Koch (i.e the tree that pays the hut tax) is generally used by the Warange and Waririama for poaching, this tree grows throughout coastal areas and at Momoni Ketin (?) and is added by Wagiria, ma ...?... on mangea and with ...?... 2. Tnumbo (?)3. Mugulware - makes the poison very strong and is specially used for elephants. Fatal effects said to be rapid. Extensively hawked along the coast Ketui san and Mariakami, the poison is made duringthe dr, y season, signed CC MacArthur AGN Copy of memo from the Game Warden Nariobi and Miss Napier Letter See Apocynaceae Cover for copies of letter on methods of preparation of the poison and effect on animals with Miss Napier's letter (M 903.30) JHH Letter M 9, 03. 30 Miss Napier Nairobi July 25th 1930, ack by Asst Dir 5th Sept 1930 Arrow poison plants - Mumbo and Mugulware not identified flowers & fruit desired. Thwngu - identified as A.schimperi. Identification confirmed by anatomical comparison with museum m, aterial. A full account of this poison plant : its natural history, chemistry and Pharacology is given by Prof John R Fraser in Archirps Internationales de Pharmacodynamie Vol 5 fasc 5 & 6 Gamu (?) & Paris 1889 pp 349-423 Illustrated. | ||||