Twig Covered With Poison Gum
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Apr 1968
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Gordon D. Gibson
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "A resinous mass on a twig. This arrow poison is prepared from the grub of a bettle (Damphidia simplex and related species) which pass a larval stage on a tree called tsoroko by the Tawana (probably Commiphora dinteri engl. but some also grow on other tress). When mature the grubs descend to the ground beneath to pupate. The pupa of this beetles, called Kai by the Bushman is mixed with the juice of Acacia mellifera detinens Burch ina bone container made from the upper end of a Kudu humerus. It forms a resinous mass which is applied to the tang of arrow heads, or may be dried and kept for later use - as the present specimen."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Botswana, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kung
label: Culture
content: Bushman
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 273832
label: USNM Number
content: E407498-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Poison