Rope (Kew EBC 43422)

Ropes of hemp from Japan, given by J. H. Veitch and entered at Kew in 1893
Artefact· KewEBC 43422
Object
Object Type	Rope
Use	Made from cannabis
Cannabis in the Record
Holder's Wording	"Ropes of hemp"
Attribution	Stated
Origin
Country	Japan
Holding
Held By	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Collection	Economic Botany Collection
Catalogue Number	EBC 43422
Entry Number	180.1893
Acquired From	J. H. Veitch
Date Acquired	1893
Holder's Record	View the holder's record

EBC 43422 is an artefact catalogued in the Economic Botany Collection of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: ropes of hemp from Japan, which Kew files under the plant name Cannabis sativa. It was entered at Kew in 1893, with J. H. Veitch as donor.

The catalogue entry

The catalogue gives the artefact name and the parts held as Ropes of hemp, the plant name as 153.04 CANNABACEAE Cannabis sativa, the use as MATERIALS - Fibres with the user Man, the country and the geography description as Japan, the storage as Bottles, boxes etc, the entry book number as 180.1893 and the donor as Veitch JH. The donor number, donor date, collector, collector's number and collection date fields are blank.

Kew's help page defines the entry book number as a number given to each group of specimens at the point of acquisition, in a series that runs each year, and says the donor field is used when specimens have passed through a second person or institution. The same entry number and donor are recorded for a second object catalogued as Ropes, Rope (Kew EBC 43433). Kew also publishes the entry to GBIF, with the locality Japan. No image of the ropes is published.

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