Source: Spruce, R. (1855) Domestic Uses. Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic Uses. (pp 31-61) and miscellaneous notes, p 38: Seems to give it peculiar qualities, the silen content in the bark, which supplies lack of sand in clay, renders pottery fireproof, t, hus yielding to a lighter than European crockery. There is a caraipe on Uaupes which when burnt leaves scarcely any of its ? . Pottery of Uaupes especially large panellas and ganabas (called tingas in Venezuela) are superior to any other and its exc, ellence is attributed to quality of clay but part of it is due to caraipe. The best cooking pottery on Manica, Crig and even at Fesno in Uaupes, that a good many pots are also used.