@tojb Ah, thank you. It was the "Not to be confused with curcumin." disclaimer at the top of the cumin page that threw me off, together with the fact that curcumin isn't mentioned anywhere in the rest of the page; whereas the turmeric page leads off with curcumin. The overall impression is that there's no curcimin in cumin and whoever named it was just trying to confuse people.
@TRT Have you thought of Kickstarter? You don't necessarily need one wealthy foreigner when a bunch of them chipping $5 each in will have the same effect.