Jacket made of bark cloth - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 73130 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 153.05 MORACEAE Ficus sp | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Jacket made of bark cloth | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Tanzania | TDWG Region | Tanzania | ||
| Parts Held | Jacket made of bark cloth | Geography Description | Tanzania, Africa, East Tropical Africa, Kigoma | ||
| Uses | Jacket made of bark clothUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Bidgood S | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/02/1994 | Donor Notes | Vollensen Kx0Dx0A | ||
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| Notes: | Jacket purchased by Kew staff in Tanzania. Probably from melumba - See 'My Journey from Rhodesia to Egypt' by Theo Kassner (Hutchinson & Co, London 1911) 'They drape themselves around the loins with a kind of cloth made of the bark of a tree called Melum, ba'. | ||||