Rice drying mat - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 99401 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 199.00 CYPERACEAE Lepironia articulata | Entry Book Number | 9.2016 | |
| Artefact Name | Rice drying mat | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Madagascar | TDWG Region | Madagascar | ||
| Parts Held | Rice drying mat | Geography Description | Tanana (village) Bongabe, Fkt: Bongabe | ||
| Uses | Rice drying matUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Gardiner, Lauren | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 27/07/2016 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Gardiner, Lauren | Collector No | LGEB29 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 09/06/2016 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Lepironia stems are washed, flattened and dried in sun, then woven by hand. More durable than similar mats made of Pandanus e.g. 99400 (Lauren Gardiner, pers. comm.) | ||||
| Determinations: | 187.00 PALMAE Raphia sp. 199.00 CYPERACEAE Lepironia articulata (Retz.) Domin | ||||