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Inclusion
Kew's catalogue names the object Fibre (& cloth) of hemp and files it under the plant name 153.04 CANNABACEAE Cannabis sativa. Catalogues use the word hemp for other fibres too; here the plant name identifies the plant as Cannabis. The cloth is an object made from cannabis, and neither wording is hedged, so the attribution is Stated. The infobox quotes the object's name.
Evidentiary scope
The entry gives no place finer than the north of Korea, no maker and no date of making. It documents hemp fibre and hemp cloth from Korea at Kew by November 1885; it does not say where or how the cloth was made, whether it was woven from the fibre held with it, or where the fibre was grown. It documents no plant, population or living holding, and landrace, feral and conservation fields do not apply to an artefact.
Kew publishes no image of this object, and GBIF carries none.
Editorial treatment
One number, two parts. Kew holds fibre and cloth under the single number 43417. The cloth is a made object, so the number is recorded as an artefact, with the object type Textile; the materials field names both parts. The fibre held with it is described on this page rather than given an accession of its own, because the catalogue does not separate the two.
Country. Kew's ISO country and TDWG region fields classify the object under North Korea, and its geography line also reads North Korea. Kew's help page says the database was compiled in the 1980s using only the information present with each specimen, and that country names may not have been updated since. The object reached Kew in 1885, before the peninsula was divided. The geography line may give the database's country or describe the north of the peninsula, as Kew's North China and North Formosa describe regions; the catalogue does not say which. It is quoted as the place recorded. The country field gives Korea, the wiki's value for the peninsula when a source names no state.
Dates. Kew's help page defines an Entry Book Number as a number assigned to each group of specimens at the point of acquisition. Its number, 124.1885, and the donor date, 24 November 1885, date the gift to Kew, not the making. The date made is left empty; the date acquired is 1885.
Acquired from. Kew's donor field reads Carles WR. The field gives the donor's full name, William Richard Carles, who is identified from three sources. Life in Corea (London, 1888) names its author on the title page as W. R. Carles, F.R.G.S., H.M. Vice-Consul at Shanghai and formerly H.M. Vice-Consul in Corea. Its preface places him in Seoul in the early part of 1885, and in the account of his overland journey of autumn 1884 he writes that he shot down fir cones to send them to Kew. Forbes and Hemsley's enumeration of the plants of China and Korea, in the Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany, vol. 23), cites Korean specimens from Carles in the Kew herbarium, one of them a Corean specimen lately received at Kew from Mr. Carles. The Index of Botanists of the Harvard University Herbaria records William Richard Carles (1848–1929), also known as W. R. Carles, as a collector in China from 1867 to 1883 and in Korea from 1883 to 1885, with specimens at Kew; it lists no other collector of that name. The catalogue does not say how Carles obtained the fibre and cloth. The field collector is empty, because Kew's collector fields are blank.
No culture is entered. Kew's catalogue has no culture field and names no people as makers or users.
These notes were recorded during artefact preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 03:26, 14 October 2026 (+07)