Loincloth - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 98929 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 153.05 MORACEAE Ficus nervosa | Entry Book Number | 4.2015 | |
| Artefact Name | Loincloth | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Indonesia | TDWG Region | Indonesia | ||
| Parts Held | Loincloth | Geography Description | Nua Nua, Kilo 12, Masohi, Seram, Maluku province, Indonesia | ||
| Uses | LoinclothUse: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Brennan, Emily | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/06/2015 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Emily Brennan | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/03/2015 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Barkcloth wrapped around a bark girdle. Locally called ayunte. Used in male life transformation rituals by the Nuaulu people of Seram island. Barkcloth is made from several species. This species in particular is used for village elders and the inauguratio, n of new clan chiefs. It is usually decorated with red, yellow, blue and black pigment but it was not deemed appropriate to bring decorated barkcloth out of the village. Ficus pubinervis used to make barkcloth and prunus javanica to make the internal gird, le. | ||||
| Determinations: | 58.01 ROSACEAE Prunus javanica (Teijsm. & Binn.) Miq. 153.05 MORACEAE Ficus nervosa | ||||