Damar

Strips of calliandra provide good shade for seedlings of plantation species such as damar (Agathis loranthifolia). ❋ Unknown (1983)

Mulyono prefers to spend her vacation, or refreshing time as she calls it, collecting new samples of damar, a substance found in certain trees in Indonesia that she uses in her research. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It is safe to say, from what I know now, it is the damar I used that contributed most to the problem. ❋ James Gurney (2009)

Normally when you clean a painting, you take off the smoky, dirty, orange and brown layers and the yellowed damar varnish, and the painting gets more of a pure blue look. ❋ James Gurney (2009)

Seram's moist lowland forests are being exploited by logging companies, primarily for their valuable damar trees (Agathis). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Currently, the wet evergreen lowland forests in the northwest of Halmahera are exploited by logging companies, primarily for the valuable damar trees (Agathis). ❋ Unknown (2008)

As a rule, damar and the different groups of specially formulated synthetic varnishes are planned for precise use and equally precise removal. ❋ Golding, John (1983)

Blue mountain crests soar above dark realms of virgin forest, where the sombre conifers exude the precious _damar_, which glues itself to the red trunks in shining lumps often of twenty pounds 'weight, or sinks deeply into the soft soil, from whence the solidified gum needs excavation. ❋ Emily Richings (N/A)

The _damar_, pounded and poured into palm-leaf tubes, serves for the torches of the fishermen, and for the lighting of the dusky native houses. ❋ Emily Richings (N/A)

At the last moment the native Sultan of Batjan embarks for his island home, after commercial negotiations in Ternate, for this native prince, a keen-faced man in European dress and scarlet turban, trades largely in _damar_, the basis of his wealth. ❋ Emily Richings (N/A)

The thriving industries of _copra_, rattan, and _damar_ (the gum used in making varnish) were increased tenfold by the abolition of private spice-trading, and by emancipation of the slaves in 1861, when the ❋ Emily Richings (N/A)

Take equal parts of gum damar and white rosin and just enough Persian blue to color it. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

The room partially lighted by damar torches; the clang of the noisy instruments; the crowd of wild spectators; their screams of encouragement to the performers; the flowing hair and rapid evolutions of the dancers, formed a scene I wish could have been reduced to painting by such a master as Rembrandt or Caravaggio. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

A small heap of damar-gum torches lay by each, and between them Babalatchi strolled backwards and forwards, stopping often with his face to the river and his head on one side, listening to the sounds that came from the darkness over the water. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Tatu-markings: the full moon; stars; the durian fruit; the nagah; fish; the rayong; colour of, from damar; the clothing of the liao, or soul; on entire body; to prevent disease ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)

People in this neighbourhood were lappar (hungry), having no rice, and the men were absent in the utan looking for rattan, white damar, and rubber, which they exchange for rice from Chinese traders. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)

On this account some sixty Malays who were camped here, bound for the utan higher up the river, in search of rubber and damar, delayed their departure as did some Kenyahs who were on their way to Apo Kayan, and the people of the kampong did not go to their ladangs. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)

As these are not completely filled by the rattan, they are plugged with fibre and calked with damar to prevent leakage. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)

For five months the work of putting a handle on a parang and fastening it with damar must not be done else both mother and child would die. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)