Seeds - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 61366 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Tephrosia vogelii | Entry Book Number | 24.1888 | |
| Artefact Name | Seeds | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Seeds | Geography Description | West Tropical Africa | ||
| Uses | SeedsUse: VERTEBRATE POISONS - Fish User: Man | TDWG use | VERTEBRATE POISONS - Fish | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Royal Niger Company | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Opuscular source: Extract from Report on Gonga Country by assistant Inspector Armitage Dated 7. 1.98. Rec. thro Colonial Office, Kew Ap. 23. 1898. Fish are obtained from the larger rivers on the subsidence of the floods and are caught in baskets and nets, . The people also use the leaf of a plant called ' Kassa' which they cultivate for that purpose. This plant grows to a height of 8 ft and has a pea like blossom. I forward herewith a small specimen of a dried Kassa plant. The flowers I could not obtain bu, t made a sketch of the flowers of a similar plant which are however only half the size of the Kassa flower which is also of a deeper purplish pink colour. When Kassa is to be used in fishing a stretch of about half a mile of water is dammed and any alliga, tors in it killed. The people from the neighbouring villages assemble, each bringing their bundle of Kassa leaves which are then beaten to a pulp taken to the prepared stretch of water and thrown in. Men then enter into the water and splash about and in a, bout 10 mins fish begin to appear on the surface and are collected in baskets or by hand. The largest fish are taken in this way. The skin of the men who enter the water into which the Kassa pulp has been thrown is affected by the latter and becomes rough, or as they say 'like a stick'. The blue dye used by the natives for their clothes is obtained from the nut of a tree called 'Langpara'? and from a plant called ' Gera' (Gonga) Sierra Leone Boundary Comm. per G T Scott Elliott. No. 3989 'Taury' ? of nativ, es a shrub used for poisoning fish (seeds) Regent S. Leone. Notes from Herbarium specimens J.H.H. Ap. 6.1904. | ||||