Nuts in the Netherlands: Attalea and other nuts from archaeological contexts, dating from the 16th to 19th century AD

Marloes Rijkelijkhuizen and Louise van Wijngaarden-Bakker

Environmental Archaeology, 2006, vol. 11, issue 2, 247-251

Abstract: This paper describes the use of palm nuts for the manufacture of artefacts in the Netherlands. From the 17th to 19th century buttons were made of nuts of the Brazilian palm tree Attalea cf. funifera. Finds from 17th century shipwrecks suggest that the palm nuts of this species were directly imported from Middle or South America. Coconuts were used for carving, for example for the manufacture of coconut beakers. In the 19th century buttons were also made of 'vegetable ivory' or tagua nut.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1179/174963106x123241

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