Basket - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 73828 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 200.00 POACEAE Neomicrocalamus andropogonifolius | Entry Book Number | 14.1997.2 | |
| Artefact Name | Basket | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Bhutan | TDWG Region | Bhutan | ||
| Parts Held | Basket | Geography Description | Bhutan, Asia-Tropical, Indian Subcontinent, Zhemgang District | ||
| Uses | BasketUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Donor No | ||||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Barrow S | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/02/1997 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Basket with lid. Used traditionally for carrying food, and are increasingly sold to tourists as souvenir items. Traditionally split cane and bamboo products were coloured with vegetable dyes, however, modern products (including this item) are coloured w, ith chemical dyes. (Of Indian origin) Purchased in Thimphu, Handicrafts Emporium but manufactured in Bjorka Gewog of Zhemgang District. Weave of basket ot Neomicrocalamus, vernacular name Yula (Khengkha), Frame and stitching of Calamus acanthospathus ver, nacular names Krath, Gren (Khengkha), Gauribet (Lepchas), Munzi (Sharchop) Collected by R Pradhan, S Barrow, C Stapleton in connection with a cane and bamboo survey of Zhemgang District (January- March 1997). All voucher specimens held in the herbarium i, n Bhutan.x0Dx0APart of Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew. May 1998 to May 2016. | ||||
| Determinations: | 187.00 PALMAE Calamus acanthospathus Griffith 200.00 POACEAE Neomicrocalamus andropogonifolius (Griffith) Stapleton | ||||