- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Dum palm nut. [MJD 30/09/2009]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1904
- Date collected
- December 1904
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 08/1949
- Materials and processes
- Material Palm Nut Plant
- Dimensions
- Width: max 35 mm, Length: max 42 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1949.8.118
- Research and responses
The Doum (or Dhoum) nut is the nut of the doum palm (Hyphaene thebaica) also called the gingerbread palm. [Encyclopædia Britannica Online] [CF 6/6/2000]
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