Rope (Kew EBC 43430)

Ropes of hemp from Serbia, given by the Balkan States Exhibition and entered at Kew in 1907
Artefact· KewEBC 43430
Object
Object Type	Rope
Use	Made from cannabis
Cannabis in the Record
Holder's Wording	"Ropes of hemp"
Attribution	Stated
Origin
Country	Serbia
Holding
Held By	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Collection	Economic Botany Collection
Catalogue Number	EBC 43430
Entry Number	127.1907
Acquired From	Balkan States Exhibition, Earls Court
Date Acquired	1907
Holder's Record	View the holder's record

EBC 43430 is an artefact catalogued in the Economic Botany Collection of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: ropes of hemp from Serbia, which Kew files under the plant name Cannabis sativa. They were entered at Kew in 1907, with the Balkan States Exhibition at Earls Court 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 geography description as Serbia and the storage as Bottles, boxes etc. Its ISO country and TDWG region fields read Yugoslavia. The entry book number is 127.1907, the donor Earls Court, Balkan States Exhibition and the donor date 00/00/1907, the year 1907 alone. The catalogue leaves the donor number, collector, collector's number and collection date 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. It says the database was compiled in the 1980s using only the information present with each specimen. Kew also publishes the entry to GBIF, with the locality Serbia and no country. No image of the ropes is published.

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