Tamaca Palm, Colombia or Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: May–October 1853
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Botanical sketch showing a view of a tamaca palm somewhere in Colombia or Ecuador, with the faint outline of another beside it at right. Also referred to as the tamaco, chota, or corozo palm, this tree's scientific name is Astrocaryum standleyanum. It has a long, slender trunk with spiny scales around its upper portion. Its canopy is roughly spherical in shape and radiates fronds in all directions.
place: label: made in
content: Colombia or Ecuador
label: place depicted
content: Colombia or Ecuador
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-107
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 28.2 × 21.5 cm (11 1/8 × 8 7/16 in.)