Woven plate / basket for food - Specimen details

Woven plate / basket for food - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 73339

Plant Name 170.03 MARANTACEAE Ischnosiphon arouma Entry Book Number 3.1995.10
Artefact Name Woven plate / basket for food Vernacular Name
Iso Country Brazil TDWG Region Brazil
Parts Held Woven plate / basket for food Geography Description Roraima, Southern America, Brazil, Brazil North, Auaris region
Uses Woven plate / basket for foodUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS - Fibres
Storage Extra-large shelving Related Items
Donor Donor No
Donor Date Donor Notes
Collector Milliken William Collector No 10
Collection Notes Collection Date 00/00/1994
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Bought from the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) in Manaus, from the Maiongong Indians. Woven from the outer layer of split stems of Ischnosiphon arouma. The black dye is prepared by mixing the sticky resin from the bark of certain Inga species with a, fine soot produced by the burning of Protium (Burseraceae) resin. The rim is stiffened with an unknown wood, and bound with fibres from the leaves of Bromelia sp (Bromeliaceae), which have been rubbed in resin from a guttiferous tree (probably Symphonia, globulifera L.f.) According to Francoise Barbira Friedman (Dept of Social Anthropology, Univ. Cambridge), this food plate shows a design of the Panare Indians of the Orinoco. It has probably been made for the tourist trade as it is too flimsy. Paul Hea, ley (Granade Unit, University of Manchester) has written a book on Panare design.
Determinations:27.01 GUTTIFERAE Symphonia globulifera L.f.
    42.00 BURSERACEAE Protium sp
    57.03 LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE Inga sp
    170.03 MARANTACEAE Ischnosiphon arouma (Aubl.) Korn.
    171.00 BROMELIACEAE Bromelia sp

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