•10 Hosseus, Botan. u. kolonialwirtsch. Studien über die Bambusstaude. 



a bombao jimgle on fire. There was a great deal of noise comparable 

 to mtisketry; but the bamboo were not of the large kind here 

 spoken of." The Hon. Robert Lindsay describing his elephant- 

 catching in Silhet, says: ,,At night each man lights a fire at his 

 post and furnished himself with a dozen joints of the large bamboo, 

 one of which he occasionally throws into the fire, and the air it 

 contains being by the heat, it explodes with a report as loud as a 

 musket" (Lives of Lindsays III p. 191). 



Die Bedeutung der Bambusstaude im Wirtschaftsleben der Völker. 



Für die Bedeutung der Bambusstaude im Wirtschaftsleben 

 der Völker möchte ich einem der tüchtigsten Forscher Wallace 1 ) 

 in seiner Muttersprache das Wort geben : 



„During my many journeys in Borneo, and especially during 

 my various residences among the Dyaks. I first came to appreciate 

 the admirable qualities of the Bamboo. In those parts of South 

 America which I had previously visited, these gigantic grasses 

 were comparatively scarce; and where found but little used, 

 their place being taken as to one class*of uses by the great variety 

 of Palms, and as to another by calabashes and gourds. Almost 

 all tropical countries produce Bamboos, and wherever they are 

 found in abundance the natives apply them to a variety of uses. 

 Their strength, hightness, smoothness, straightness, roundness 

 and hollowness, the facility and regularity with which they can 

 be split, their many different sizes, the varying length of their 

 joints, the ease with which they can be cut and with which holes 

 can be made through them, their hardness outside, their freedom 

 from any pronounced taste or smell, their great abundance, and 

 the rapidity of their growth and increase, are all qualities which 

 render them useful for a hundred different purposes, to sewe 

 which other materials would require much more labour and pre- 

 paration. The bamboo is one of the most wonderful and most 

 beautiful productions of the tropics, and one of natures most 

 valuable gifts to un civilized man" usw. 



Während meines Aufenthaltes in den Kew Gardens 

 bei London 2 ) 1911 bearbeitete ich auch das gesamte Material 

 in den Museen, das mit dem Wirtschaftsleben der Völker und den 

 Bambusstauden zusammenhängt. Ich gebe hier die Beschreibung 

 der einzelnen Stücke in Kew, nachdem ich bereits einen Teil über 

 die Hüte 3 ) publiziert habe. 



Kleidungsstücke. 

 Bei den Chinesen finden wir als häufiges Kleidungs- 

 stück, vor allem von den Kulis getragen, Bambus -Hemden. 

 Wenn es sehr heiß ist, da sieht man diese oft als einzige Bekleidung 



J ) Wallace, The Malay Archipelago. I. pp. 120—126. 



2 ) Auch an dieser Stelle sei den Herren der Kew Museen, vor allem Leutnant- 

 Colonel D. P r a i n , mein verbindlichster Dank ausgesprochen. 



3 ) Hosseus, C. C. , Hüte aus Pflanzenstoffen. (Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 

 1912. pp. 79—87.) 



