Economic Botany Collections

Catalogue number:

44172

Botanical classification:

EUPHORBIACEAE Hevea sp.

Common name(s):

Caoutchouc

Geographical description:

Brazil, Amazonas, Rio Uaupes

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Donor:

Spruce, Richard

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Diameter:

23.0

6.5

6.5

Specimen label:

The head is made of Caoutchouc Called in Lingoa Geral, Turucana.

Museum entry book 1847-55, p. 260:

Used throughout Uaupés for beating the big drum called in lingoa geral, Turucana but by the Tariana Indians, Fulifuru and by Tucanos, Tuati.