Janus: Christy collection of photographs on Africa

RCS/Y304A contains:
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102	Effects of tapping on Funtumia elastica, Ashanti, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana]
103	Effects of tapping on Funtumia elastica, Ashanti, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana]
104	Effects of tapping, Calabar, Southern Nigeria
105	Effects of tapping, Victoria, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon]
106	Tapping groovers and pickers
107	Tapping in Uganda
108	Tapping in Uganda
109	The spiral system with the 'Funtumia knife'
110	The spiral system with the 'Funtumia knife'
111	Vertical tapping method, Victoria, Cameroon Mountain
112	Abnormal root development, Victoria, Cameroon Mountain
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Christy collection of photographs on Africa

Title	Tapping in Uganda
Reference	Y304A/107
Creator	Christy, Cuthbert, 1863-1932
Extent and Medium	Good condition.

Content and context

72 x 99 mm. A view showing a Swahili on climbing slings using a Funtumia knife to score tapping lines in a rubber tree using the D.H.S. system (the Double Half Spiral) with alternate spiral lines running into a central vertical line which leads down to the collection cup.

Further information

This appears as Figure 98 in: Christy, Cuthbert (1911). The African rubber industry and Funtumia elastica ('kickxia'), London: J. Bale, Sons and Danielsson, facing p.199.

For other photographs of the DHS system of tapping see Y304A/115-118.

Indexed

Index Terms

Africa

Uganda

Christy, Cuthbert (1863-1932) explorer and zoologist

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