Object data
wood, iron, brass and paper
height 4.5 cm × width 43.2 cm × depth 29.1 cm
anonymous
Suriname, c. 1800 - c. 1858
wood, iron, brass and paper
height 4.5 cm × width 43.2 cm × depth 29.1 cm
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-84
Copyright: Public domain
Rectangular wooden box containing forty-four wood samples: 1. groenhart (Nectandra rodiaei) 2. bijlhout (walaba, Eperua spec.) 3. purperhart (Peltogyne spec.) 4. bolletrie (Manilkara surinamensis) 5. peto (mora, Dimorphandra excelsa) 6. manbarklak (Eschweilera longipes) 7. matakkie (Symphonia globulifera) 8. matakkie (Symphonia globulifera) 9. locus (Hymenaea courbaril) 10. kabbis (Andira spec.) 11. cedar (unidentified) 12. kopie (Goupia glabra) 13. wane (Ocotea rubra) 14. krapa (Carapa guyanensis) 15. kankantrie (Ceiba pentandra) 16. wane (Ocotea rubra) 17. hoepelboom (Copaifera guyanensis) 18. kwatta-pattoe (unidentified) 19. takroeba (unidentified) 20. bastaard bolletrie (mérie, Humiria floribunda) 21. matakkie (Symphonia globulifera) 22. tapoeripa (Genipa americana or Gustavia spec.) 23. negro wantem (unidentified) 24. mirahoedoe (mierenhout, Triplaris surinamensis) 25. manbarklak (Eschweilera longipes) 26. marmeldoze (Genipa mériance or Genipa edulis) 27. boschkers (unidentified) 28. ingie-pipa (Couratari spec.) 29. bosch goejava or guava (Psidium guajava) 30. monpee (mopé?) (Spondias lutea); sample inscribed ‘abbako’ (abakko?) 31. witte ceder (Cedrela odorata) 32. foengoehoedoe or vonkhout (Parinarium campestre) 33. swietie boontje (Inga rubiginosa) 34. hooglandsche bebe (Pterocarpus rhorii) 35. bijlhout (walaba, Eperua spec.) 36. hans hieps, or hans ipsen bolletrie (unidentified) 37. baboen (virola surinamensis) 38. oemanbarklak (Eschweilera corrugata) 39. suikerhout (unidentified) 30. jashout (unidentified) 41. arratte (Minquartia guyanensis) 42. koerali (Calophyllum spec.) 43. water groenhart (Sweetia nitens) 44. brown cedar (Cedrela odorata).1
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 84; J.P. Pfeiffer, De houtsoorten van Suriname, 2 vols., vol. 1, Amsterdam 1926 (Meededelingen van de Koninklijke Vereeniging Koloniaal Instituut Amsterdam, vol. 22)
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Box Containing Forty-Four Samples of Wood from Surinam, Suriname, c. 1800 - c. 1858', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.242809
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