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Graphic material
1 illustration : pencil on paper with watercolour and gouache ; 33.1 x 42.7 cm
Illustration of Cush-cush Yam (Dioscorea trifida); in French, Igname cousse-couche; in Haitian Creole, Yanm/Kouchkouch. Place of creation: Marmelade. Specimen origin: Marmelade/Mamlad.
Watermarks: Strasbourg lily (partial).
Inscription (transcribed from recto): No. 30.
Inscription (from recto; translation): No. 30.
Inscription (transcribed from verso): un pied d’igname Couscous, avec sa feüille sa fleur et son fruit Grand. nat. fait a la marmelade le 2. 9bre 1775. Rabié / Igname Couscous / no. 29 / un pied d’igname-coussecousse, avec sa feuille, et sa racine. grandeur naturelle 1775. une igname coupée L’igname cousse-cousse, ressemble a L’igname ordinaire, et s’emploie de même.
Inscription (from verso; translation): Base of a cush-cush yam plant, with its leaf, its flower, and its fruit, natural size, made at Marmelade [Mamlad] 2 November 1775. Rabié / Igname Couscous / no. 29 / Base of a cush-cush yam plant, with its leaf, and its root. Natural size 1775. A cush-cush yam, cut. The cush-cush yam resembles the regular yam, and is used in the same way.