Talk:Rope (Kew EBC 43422)

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Page scope

Rope (Kew EBC 43422) is an artefact: an object people made to smoke, process, store or trade cannabis, or made from it, documented from the record of the institution that holds it. Cannabis material itself is recorded as an accession.

Data verification

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Discussion

Inclusion

Kew's catalogue names the object Ropes 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. Rope 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 Japan as the place, an entry number of 1893 and a donor, and no maker, no date of making and no collector. It documents hemp rope from Japan at Kew by 1893; it does not say where in Japan the ropes were made, what they were used for, or where their 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

The entry book number is not the date of making. Kew's help page defines an Entry Book Number as a number assigned to each group of specimens at the point of acquisition. The date made is left empty. The date acquired is 1893, from the entry book number 180.1893.

One number, more than one rope. Kew names the object in the plural. The catalogue does not say how many ropes the number covers; the page treats them as one catalogued object, as Kew does.

A pair. Rope (Kew EBC 43433) has the same entry number and donor and is also ropes. Neither entry says how the two differ.

Place. The geography line names Japan only, so the place-as-recorded field is empty and the country field gives Japan.

Acquired from. The field gives J. H. Veitch, Kew's Veitch JH in initials form. The donor is not further identified. The field collector is empty, because Kew's collector fields are blank.

These notes were recorded during artefact preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 03:26, 14 October 2026 (+07)