Description
Ethnobotanical collection on display (excluding those nested within the main "carpological" collection). The collection would include, properly speaking, all the collections of artefacts and derivatives of plant origin, such as pharmacological preparations, dyes, carpets, ropes, hats, fibres, fans, baskets, paper etc., whose origin dates back to Filippo Parlatore, who was concerned with complementing the actual herbaria with a collection of products that would be useful in illustrating the man-plant interaction in the daily life of human populations worldwide. Here, since most of the above-mentioned exhibits are regularly interspersed with the main ancillary collection of the so-called ‘carpoteca’, reference is instead made to the small number of objects (approx. 100) indefinitely extracted from that collection to be variously distributed among the museum's rooms, mostly as remnants in the showcases of the former ostensive room on the second floor. They include, among others, the wood mosaic of uncertain origin exhibited in that room and some artefacts from the Malay area recently recovered from former storage rooms. Most of these artefacts are in the process of being transferred - for a more proper valorisation and curation - to the Museum ethno-anthropology collections.
Purposes
This is a sub-collection of https://registry.gbif.org/collection/19961847-31f6-4abb-9b92-18a391ba9b0d. Information originally retrieved from internal University of Florence Museal System (UNIFI-SMA) digitization dashboard, compiled in October 2021.
