Wax - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 64497 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 34.04 IRVINGIACEAE Irvingia gabonensis | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Wax | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Wax | Geography Description | West Tropical Africa | ||
| Uses | WaxUse: FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Mann G | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/01/1863 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Prepared from the seeds and used by the Bengas in the preparation of thier food. The seeds which contain a quantity of oil are separated from the fruits and beaten in a trough till they attain a partially fluid state. This is then put into, baskets of Musa leaves and exposed to the sun, when a white tallow collects on the surface which is poured off, and the Udika allowed to cool in the shade. | ||||