Man's jerkin made of raffia cloth - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 75786 | |||||
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Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Raphia farinifera | Entry Book Number | 21.1998.4 | |
| Artefact Name | Man's jerkin made of raffia cloth | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Madagascar | TDWG Region | Madagascar | ||
| Parts Held | Man's jerkin made of raffia cloth | Geography Description | Madagascar, Africa, Western Indian Ocean, Fianarantsoa, Ifanadiana | ||
| Uses | Man's jerkin made of raffia clothUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Donor No | ||||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Dransfield J | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/11/1998 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Man's jerkin made from raffia cloth sewn with cotton thread by machine. Such jerkins are still worn by older men in the Ifanadiana area, usually for working in the fields. Artefacts purchased in market, Ifanadiana, Prov. Fianarantsoa, November, 1998., (representative collection from the same area Dransfield JD 7516, Nov. 1994)., Cloth sewn with cotton thread. | ||||
| Determinations: | 31.01 MALVACEAE Gossypium sp 187.00 PALMAE Raphia farinifera (Gaertn.) Hylander | ||||