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CA RBD 4-17
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1767 (Creation)
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1 illustration : pencil on paper with watercolour and gouache ; 27 x 39.2 cm
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(1717-1785)
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Illustration of Air potato (Dioscorea bulbifera?); in French, Hoffe; in Haitian Creole, Masòkò or Akàm Masòkò or Akàm. Place of creation: Haiti.
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Watermarks: Strasbourg lily (full).
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Inscription (transcribed from verso): une ignâme, avec ses Racines son Bois et sa feuille, et une igname Coupée. Grand[eur] natt[ure]lle. quoy quil y en ait de Beaucoup plus grosses. Ce que cette Racine a de particulier, C’est quelle se multiple, de sa tete que l’on coupe, ou de L’ingname meme que lon coupe en morceaux et que l’on Replante, ou bien Encore des petites ingnames que lon apelle Graine qui naissent aux neuds des Branches, ou bois. Rabié / no. 17. / une igname avec ses racines, son bois et sa feuille, grandeur naturelle, quoiqu’il y en ait de beaucoup plus grosses. une igname coupée. cette racine qui approche de la pomme de terre mais pas aussi farineuse, se multiplie de sa tête que l’on coupe, ou de L’igname même coupée en morceaux et replantée, ou des petites ignames que l’on nomme graines et qui naissent aux noeuds des branches ou bois. on la fait cuire avec de la viande salée, et elle entre pour beaucoup dans la nourriture des negres.
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Inscription (from verso; translation): An air potato plant, with its roots, its woody stem, and its leaf, and a cut tuber. Natural size, though there are some that are much bigger. A particular feature of this root, is that it multiplies from the head which is cut, or from the tuber itself which is cut in pieces and replanted, or even from small bulbils which are called “seeds”, which grow from the knots of the branches, or woody stem. Rabié / no. 17. / An air potato plant with its roots, its wood, and its leaf, natural size, though there are some that are much bigger. A tuber, cut. This root, which resembles the potato but is not as floury, multiplies from the head which is cut, or from the tuber itself cut in pieces and replanted, or from small bulbils which are called “seeds” and grow from the knots of the branches or woody stem. It is cooked with salted meat, and is used often in the food of the negroes.
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17
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19