Pitch/Resin - Specimen details

Pitch/Resin - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 66685

Plant Name 27.01 GUTTIFERAE Symphonia globulifera Entry Book Number 65.1855
Artefact Name Pitch/Resin Vernacular Name
Iso Country Venezuela TDWG Region Venezuela
Parts Held Pitch/Resin Geography Description Venezuela, Orinoco
Uses Pitch/ResinUse: MATERIALS - Gums/Resins User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS - Gums/Resins
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Spruce, Richard Donor No 186
Donor Date 15/06/1855 Donor Notes
Collector Spruce, Richard Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: Peraman, a sort of pitch prepared by Piaroa Indians on the Orinoco. Apparently identical with Oanani of Brazil, and certainly extracted from a species of Moronobaea which from its leaves I cannot distinguish from M cocinea. At San Carlos it, is called Mani. 65.1855. no186.

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