Vegetable ivory - the Beja Botanical Museum photo collection

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Abstract

Vegetable ivory is a raw material used to make small objects, such as buttons, adorns for personal use or home decorations. It comes mainly from the seed endosperm of species belonging to the genus Phytelephas Ruiz & Pav.. The collection of Beja Botanical Museum includes a set of historical photos that show all the stages of vegetable ivory processing from seed to buttons, allowing us to have a more complete understanding of the raw materials and technologies used by this industry in the early 1930’s.

Author Biographies

Luis Mendonça de Carvalho, Beja Polytecnic University

My Orcid Number is 0000-0001-8536-5583

Director od the Beja Botanical Museum

Full Professor at the Beja Polytechnic University

Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Ethnobotany 2023

Francisca Maria Fernandes, IHC Faculty of Social and Humans Sciences - Lisbon Nova Universtity

Researcher at Institute of Contemporary History  of the Faculty of Social and Humans Sciences - Lisbon Nova University

ORCID 0000-0001-5185-328X

Paula Nozes, Beja Polytecnhic University

Curator od Economic Botany and Ethnobotanical Collections

Sara Albuquerque, Evora University

University of Beja

Lisbon Nova University

ORCID 0000-0003-2619-8556

Maria de Fátima Nunes, Evora University

Full Professor

Director of the Research line about the History and Philosophy of Science in Lisbon Nova University

ORCID 0000-0003-1492-9948

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Published

2023-08-10

How to Cite

Carvalho, L., Fernandes, F., Nozes, P., Albquerque, S., & Nunes, F. (2023). Vegetable ivory - the Beja Botanical Museum photo collection. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 26, 1–19. Retrieved from https://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/5361

Issue

Vol. 26 (2023)

Section

Notes on Ethnobotany

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