Bush Light "Otsa Pl. Atsa"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Aug 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Adolphus C. Good
label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Adolphus C. Good
notes: label: Notes
content: From Card: Only light known in this part of Africa. Made from pitch trees. Resin is spread out on leaf & set afire. One illus. in Bulletin 141, USNM, Pl. 3, fig. 6, p. 110 "When it gets well started to burn and has become quite soft the blase is extinguished and the leaf rolled arouns the pitch and tied as in the examples sent." These specimens are badly broken [illegible] crumbling." From Back of Photo: "Resin torch Cat. 164872 Gaboon R., Congo."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 May 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Gabon, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fang
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025654
label: USNM Number
content: E164872-2
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Torch