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Lab Hours

May 4 Research in Library 3 hours May 7 Online research May 10 Entering data and research 6 hours May 12 De Young Museum in San Francisco, 6 hours May 12 Museum to re measure items. finished organizing info  4 hours May 13 Museum to check database numbers, final prep of info 2 hours

Chinese Tobacco Pouch and Healds College Advertising Mirror - HELP

Anyone run into information on either of these types of items???

Maori cape, skirts, weaving and SEA BEANS or Matchbox Beans

I have a couple of excellent books on Maori weaving, capes, cloaks, skirts, mats.  Also a book in Tropical Drift Seeds - Calling Jessica, get in touch with me!!

Matchbox Beans

I found some online information about Matchbox Beans.  This is for Jessica mainly. http://www.seabean.com/locations/Australia/ http://www.junglejournals.com/2012/10/jungle-plants-matchbox-bean.html http://www.beachbeans.com/descriptions.html Matchbox Bean A robust climbing vine native to the east coast of Cape York produces a poisonous giant hanging bean. The white section of the bean was extracted, baked and pounded to produce a sort of flour that was soaked in fresh water and eaten as a bland, tasteless “porridge”. The bark and stem were soaked in water and crushed with the resulting toxic lather used as a soap and fish poison. Australia's Bountiful Burny Beans Burny beans, also known as Velvet beans, are better known by the scientific name of Mucuna gigantea. They drop from a rampant, fast-growing vine found in monsoon forests, open forests and woodlands, riverine, littoral, subtropical and tropical rainforests. Ours are collected from the beaches of Far No...