Basket with lid - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 73658 | |||||
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Plant Name | 200.00 POACEAE Eleusine coracana | Entry Book Number | 27.1996 | |
| Artefact Name | Basket with lid | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Uganda | TDWG Region | Uganda | ||
| Parts Held | Basket with lid | Geography Description | Uganda, Africa, East Tropical Africa, Fort Portal / Kasese | ||
| Uses | Basket with lidUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Cunningham AB | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 21/06/1996 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Cunningham AB | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/03/1996 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Basket from Bunyangabo, a small village between Fort Portal and Kasese, Western Uganda. Used to serve porridge (stiff porridge) made from finger millet (Eleusine coracana). This is an important component of a meal served on special occasions (eg when pa, rents or honoured visitors arrive); often with chicken as the relish. Material of the undyed part of the basket is Eleusine coracana. Dyed material is of Raphia farinifera fibre (from unopened emerged leaflets). Red dye from Rubia cordifolia roots. I', m unsure of the dark dye. Possibly from burying Raphia fibre in silty mud (it is sometimes done with leaves of Alchornea cordifolia (mordant?). Bought in March 1996 by AB Cunningham. | ||||
| Determinations: | 84.01 RUBIACEAE Rubia cordifolia 151.01 EUPHORBIACEAE Alchornea cordifolia 187.00 PALMAE Raphia farinifera 200.00 POACEAE Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn. | ||||