Comb - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 73333 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Oenocarpus bacaba | Entry Book Number | 3.1995.4 | |
| Artefact Name | Comb | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Comb | Geography Description | Roraima, Southern America, Brazil, Brazil North, Jatapuzinho, Rio Jatapuzinho | ||
| Uses | CombUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Donor No | ||||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Milliken William | Collector No | 4 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/00/1994 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Comb of the Wai-Wai Indians. Teeth made from the woody fibres from the outer layer of the leaf bases of Oenocarpus bacaba (Mart.) Wendl. (Palmae); woven together with the straw-coloured fibrous epithelia of young Mauritia flexuosa L. (Palmae) leaves, andw, ith dyed cotton from Gossypium brabadense L. (Malvaceae). The ends are tied with fibres from the leaves of Bromelia sp (Bromeliaceae), which have been rubbed in resin from a guttiferous tree (probably Symphonia globulifera L.f.). The bone is a monkeysra, dius and the feathers are from the macaw Ara arauna. Bought from the maker at Jatapuzinho.x0Dx0APlants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew. May 1998 to May 2016. | ||||
| Determinations: | 27.01 GUTTIFERAE Symphonia globulifera L.f. 31.01 MALVACEAE Gossypium barbadense L. 171.00 BROMELIACEAE Bromelia sp 187.00 PALMAE Oenocarpus bacaba (Mart.) Wendl. 187.00 PALMAE Mauritia flexuosa L. | ||||