poison sample
- Museum number
- Af1973,19.7.a-j
- Description
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Eleven seed pods of the Ndale plant (swartzia madagascanensis); used as fish poison. Seven pods are intact; one is in two pieces; two are fragmentary.
- Production date
- 1972 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 1.60 centimetres (max pod)
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Height: 1.50 centimetres (min pod)
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Width: 23 centimetres (max pod)
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Width: 7.50 centimetres (min pod)
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Depth: 7.50 centimetres (max pod)
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Depth: 1.50 centimetres (min pod)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1973
- Acquisition notes
- Af1973,19.1 to 83 is a field collection made by Mrs Margret Carey, a former member of the BM staff, among the Bemba in Zambia. See Eth.Doc.388 (now collection fiile Af1973,19.1-83).
Collected by vendor on 11.10.1972.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1973,19.7.a-j