Cariniana (also Cariana) wood Carianina (sometimes called Cariana wood) comes from a species of woody plant known as Cariniana legalis that is found mainly in forests along the Atlantic Coast in southeastern Brazil and also possibly in Colombia and Venezuela. Microscopic analysis has revealed that it was used as the carcass wood in some early English pendulum clock cases, including some made by the Knibb family of clockmakers during the 1670s and 1680s. In these, the wood appears to have been reused and is thought to have come originally from packing cases for sugar that had been imported to England. It is possible that this wood was sourced from British Guiana, a former British colony now known as Guyana, having become an independent nation in 1966.
