Series of Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) fiber samples, ca. 1885
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1885
notes: label: Description
content: Series showing preparation of fiber from leaves of the Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis), ca. 1885 West Tropical Africa. Samples of the stages of the processing of the leaves into usable fiber. One of a group of fiber samples given by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, in 1885, to the US National Museum's economic botany collection..
label: Description
content: NB: Consultation with Dr. Caroline Cornish of the Kew sponsored Mobile Museum Project confirmed that Kew acquired many series of samples to document the processes of transforming a plant material into a finished product. [MCS, 04/2018]
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Fibers & Economic Botany
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T00655
label: catalog number
content: T655
label: accession number
content: 16188
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fiber samples, display of
label: Object Name
content: fiber samples
label: Object Name
content: process samples
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: elaeis guineensis (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall; display board: 1/4 in x 21 15/16 in x 27 15/16 in; .635 cm x 55.72125 cm x 70.96125 cm