Ufa cloth from fibre - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 50057 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 106.00 APOCYNACEAE Tabernaemontana pachysiphon | Entry Book Number | 40.1919 | |
| Artefact Name | Ufa cloth from fibre | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Nigeria | TDWG Region | Nigeria | ||
| Parts Held | Ufa cloth from fibre | Geography Description | Southern Nigeria, River Niger, Asaba, nr Ogwashi-Uka | ||
| Uses | Ufa cloth from fibreUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Johnson WH | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Ex Herb Hort Bot Reg Kew Fibre yarn of an Ufa cloth made from the bark. Sent by Dept of Agriculture from Ogwashi-Uka. Letter 714/101/1919 of 16.7.1919. Opuscular source: Letter 333, 1919, xiii p70, from WH Johnson, Agric Dept, S Province, s, Nigeria, Ibadan 16th July 1919. (714/101/1919) to Sir David Prain. In further reference to the subject of my letter dated 1st Dec 1918, and your letter of 29th Jan. last, I am sending to Kew today by post 2 parcels containing herbarium specimens and ba, rk of the shrub from which Ufa cloths are made together with some fibre, yarn and an Ufa cloths made from the bark of this shrub. The specimen marked A, B & C show the fibre and the yarn in three stages of preparation. The specimens were all collected ne, ar Ogwashi-Uku, a place near Asaba, which is situated on the right bank of the Niger. The cloth I purchased in the same district for 7/6, but the finest Ufa cloths are sold at as much as 1 pound sterling each. 2. Bark for fibre making is stripped from the, young shoots at any time of the year. The bark is cleaned by scraping it with a blunt knife or a sharpened piece of bamboo. The scraped bark is then washed in water and hung in the sun to bleach. The fibre is made into yarn by rubbing it on the fleshy pa, rt of the leg with the hand. 3. The shrub grows to about 12 ft. high, it has handsome dark green, glabrous foliage and white fragrant flowers. I send a few of its seeds in case you may care to propagate them for your living collection. Signed WH Johnson,, The Director Copy 15. ix.19 | ||||