| Object Number | 2003-41-25A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Indochina | Vietnam |
| Locus | Tonkin |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Dye | Flower | Plant Material |
| Description | A sample of dried hibiscus flowers used as a dye. There are two paper cards that have information about the flowers. The front of card one reads: "7295 Hibiscus FLOWERS Hibiscus sp MALOCEAE TONKIN". The back of the card reads: "HIBISCUS Large red FLOWERS used to color liquors TONKIN".The front of the second card reads: "HIBISCUS FLOWERS used for red color TONKIN". The back of that card is all black with some glue on it as it may have served as a label for an exhibit at the Commercial Museum. |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1994.X.13365a - Other Number | 7295 - Other Number |
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