Ethnobotanical
section
In the ethnobotanical section there is a display of
manufactured articles of vegetal origin from the Amazon, Mexico,
Columbia, Peru, Chile, Costa Rica, Phillipines Islands, Borneo,
Sumatra and Vietnam and in the next time from Africa and India. The
exposition of these objects is done in a way which emphasizes the
relationship between some ethnic groups and the vegetal elements in
their surrounding environment.
In the show cases the vegetal species used to manufacture the
objects are described and also the way in which they are used
domestically, agriculturally, for hunting and
for curing. The material is divided according to subject matter i.e.
dedicated to hunting, to fishing, to
music, to the making of ornaments, to agriculture, to
domestic activities etc. The variety of ways in which some plants
are used are noted in each display case.
Every exhibit is accompanied by a label with its native name, a
brief note about its use as well as the local and scientific name
of the plants used for its fabrication. Together with the
objects and notes there are (when available) exhibits of
articles in various
stages of manufacture and the raw materials used in their making
eg. fibres, stems, trunks, barks, seeds, fruit etc.
Numerous illustrations enable us to observe the plants in their
natural habitat and in the different stages of their manufacture (eg.
cultivation, the intertwining of fibres, weaving).
Other photographs show phases of use in daily life such as ritual
curing, the preparation of vegetal and food poisons . Wooden
panels and posters illustrate things of a wider interest for
example the useful
palms, the extraction of sago, wild edible plants, medicinal
plants, guarana and the use of Dipterocarpaceae.
"Baskets of the world" the social significance of plaited crafts -
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Thanks for personnal communication to: Marco
Billi (Burkina Faso), Domenico Carotenuto (Perù), Douglas C. Daly
(Amazzonia), Michele Fucci (Venezuela), Carlo
Napolitano (Cile), Edoardo
Pinto (Costarica), Giuseppe scala (India), Basil Stergios
(Venezuela), Dennis W. Stevenson (Amazzonia), Gioacchino Vallariello
(Messico), Mario Vazquez Torres (Messico), Andrew P. Vovides
(Venezuela).
A special thanks to Dario Novellino (Filippine, Borneo, Sumatra,
Vietnam, Colombia , Perù), associated reseaecher of Anthropology
Department of Kent university, Canterbury, for contributing in
collection data fields, scientific news and ethonbotanical finds.
