Fruit basket - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 73560 | |||||
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Plant Name | 170.03 MARANTACEAE Marantochloa leucantha | Entry Book Number | 37.1995.11 | |
| Artefact Name | Fruit basket | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Cameroon | TDWG Region | Cameroon | ||
| Parts Held | Fruit basket | Geography Description | Cameroon, Africa, West-Central Tropical Africa, Etome | ||
| Uses | Fruit basketUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Ndumbe E | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 26/10/1995 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Ndumbe P, Rumball N | Collector No | 36 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 26/10/1995 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Basket made by Eku Ndumbe at Etome (near Limbe). Made from local Marantaceae, by splitting stems. Same plant is used to make sleeping mats, and the leaves are used to wrap pounded yams, for selling on the markets. | ||||