Carrying basket - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 73330 | |||||
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Plant Name | 191.01 ARACEAE Heteropsis jenmani | Entry Book Number | 3.1995.1 | |
| Artefact Name | Carrying basket | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Carrying basket | Geography Description | Amazonas, Southern America, Brazil, Brazil North, Posto Yano | ||
| Uses | Carrying basketUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Donor No | ||||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Milliken William | Collector No | 1 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/00/1994 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Carrying basket, used by women for firewood, bananas, cassava etc. Woven from the stripped and split aerial roots of Heteropsis jenmani Oliver (Araceae); dyed with the red aril of Bixa orellana L. (Bixaceae); designs drown on with a mixture of soot obtai, ned from the burning of Hymenaea (Leguminosae) resin and Bixa orellana aril. Bought in Boa Vista from a representative of CCPY, a health organisation working in the village where it was made. | ||||
| Determinations: | 17.01 BIXACEAE Bixa orellana L. 57.02 LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE Hymenaea sp 191.01 ARACEAE Heteropsis jenmani Oliver | ||||