Series showing preparation of fiber from leaves of the Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis), ca. 1885 West Tropical Africa. Samples of the stages of the processing of the leaves into usable fiber. One of a group of fiber samples given by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, in 1885, to the US National Museum's economic botany collection..
NB: Consultation with Dr. Caroline Cornish of the Kew sponsored Mobile Museum Project confirmed that Kew acquired many series of samples to document the processes of transforming a plant material into a finished product. [MCS, 04/2018]
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