2 Organic plant matter Textual record FHYA using Bews Herbarium materials series 240 items of organic plant matter [Source - Carolyn Hamilton for the FHYA, 2018: The FHYA selected the Father Franz Mayr botanical collection for inclusion on the FHYA for two reasons: it is a rare early botanical collection pertinent to the region that includes indigenous names and usages; and it was part of the wider collecting activities of Mayr. During his sojourn in Natal between 1890 and 1909 Mayr also recorded songs and collected items of material culture. The recordings went to the Phonogrammarchiv at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OAW), a number of items of material culture went to the Natal Museum (now the KwaZulu-Natal Museum, KZNM), and some items went into private collections. One of the aims of the FHYA is to enable the digital reunification of items that were collected at a particular moment or by a particular collector and were subsequently separated. Thus the FHYA site includes this botanical collection by Mayr along with the items of material culture held by the KZNM https://fhya.org/fhya-curation-of-a-selection-from-the-anthropological-collection-at-the-kwazulu-natal-museum and the recordings from the OAW https://fhya.org/fhya-selection-from-series-10-the-collection-of-father-franz-mayr-zulu-recordings-1908-sound-recordings-and-associated-material also collected by Mayr.] [Source - Carolyn Hamilton for the FHYA, 2018: The FHYA selected the entire Mayr botanical collection for digitisation, including all labels and relevant institutional materials.] Creative Commons License: CC BY-NC-ND https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Unless otherwise stated the copyright of all material on the FHYA resides with the contributing institution/custodian. 2866 /Mayr/Mayr_TOP LEVELS_emandulo_v8.csv fhya-curation-of-selected-ethnobotanical-materials-collected-by-reverend-father-franz-mayr Five Hundred Year Archive (FHYA) Online curation 2016 - Bews Herbarium (NU) Custody 1910 -