Indian Antiquary Vol 51

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 296

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Andamanese name.
tâpar
tátib- (a) (i)
tî
tökal
tōl
tôp
tôta
ûd- (b) údalaúj- (a) ûl
ûtara
waiña
wânga.
wai'unga.
wilima.
yârlayâtigiyêre
yolba
THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
APPENDIX XI-contd.
Botanical name.
Erycibe coriacae
Croton argyratus (Blyth)
Amomum dealbatum (or serieeum) Barringtonia Asiatica
Menispermaceae
Pandanus verus Tetranthera lancoefolia Carapa obovata
Maranta grandis (or Phrynium grande)
Pterospernum acerifolium
Podocarpus polystachia.
Rubiaceae Sterculia sp.
Anodendron paniculatum
[AUGUST, 1922
Remarks.
(Burm.) Chaunu.
(Burm.) Kidsalung.
(Burm.) Pyu.
See App. XIII, item 76. (Burm.) Penleong.
S (Hindi) Jungli saigon. (Burm.) Pânu. (Burm.) Thit min.
See App. XIII, item 64.
(a) Fruit is eaten.
(b) Seed is eaten.
(c) Heart of the tree is eaten.
(d) Pulpy portion of spathe is eaten.
(e) Leaf stems used in manufacture of sleeping-mats. (App. XIII, item 23.) Leaves used for thatching purposes.
(f) Rotten logs used as fuel; leaves used by women as " aprons" (obunga-) (see Journ. Roy. Anthrop. Inst., Vol. 12, pp. 330-1 and App. XIII, item 79.)
(g) Stem of this plant used for the frame and handle of the hand-net (kúd-), see App. XIII, item 20. (h) Leaves used for thatching, for screens (see App. XIII, item 74), for bedding, for wrapping round corpse, for packing focd for journey, prior to cooking, etc.
(i) Rotten logs used as fuel.
(3) Used in manufacture of the fore-shaft of the rata-, tirlej-, tölbod-, and cham- arrows (vide App. XIII, items 2, 3, 4, and 8) and sometimes also the skewer (item 77).
(k) Leaves used for thatching and for bedding.
(7) Leaves used in the manufacture of articles of personal attire (see App. XIII, items 25, 27, 28,
31).
(m) The middle portion of rotten logs used for torches.
(n) Rarely used for making canoes.
(0) Used for adzes, sometimes for foreshafts of arrows and for making children's bows.
(x) Used for making canoes; the resin is employed in making torches.
(y) Used for making canoes, pails, and eating-trays.
(p) Leaves used for the flooring of huts.
(9) Buttress-like slab roots used for making the sounding-boards employed when dancing.
(r) Used for making canoes.
(a) Resin used in manufacture of kanga-ta-baj- (see App. XIII, item 62).
(t) Used in making the gob-, kai-, and sometimes the tog. (see App. XIII, items 82, 80 and 10).
(u) Generally used for making paddles and the leaves for bedding.
(v) Used for making shaft of hog-spear.
(to) Used for making baskets, fastenings of adzes, turtle-spears, torches, (toug-) and of bundles ; also for suspending buckets, for stitching cracks in canoes and in thatching.