The link is a sticky red gum secreted by the mukula which coagulates quickly and is explicitly compared by the Ndembu to blood.
The hair was twisted into hundreds of tiny tight plaits and set with a liberal application of sticky gum arabic and dhurra paste.
When the poppies had been picked, Rizzoli watched the sticky white gum transformed from a morphine base into heroin, at a 'laboratory' in the hills.
They apply the sticky gum directly to sores or cuts and it works as an antiseptic.
There was a long pole with sticky gum for catching birds, a conch shell for calling to prayer, and four heavy stones to serve as sea anchors.
The sap soon becomes a sticky gum, and fossilises as amber.
One block from the store I looked down to see one of those beautiful shoes entrapped by a huge wad of very sticky gum.
To catch the dwarf he made a doll and covered it with sticky gum.
Next came a little whitish powder-"Alum"-and some sticky gum, then he stirred the mix with a brass pestle.
The armor was attached with a sticky black gum, which was revealed when I pried the plates away from the leg.