| Object Number | 2003-41-25J |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Indochina | Vietnam |
| Locus | Cochinchina | Bien Hoa |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Dye |
| Description | A sample of a climbing plant. A piece of paper with handwriting in French in black and red ink reads: "Cochinchine 6669 Mat. tinct. Liane Liane Dang-Dang (de Bien-Hoa) Fibraurea tinctoria Lour. Menispermaceae Fibraurea (over)". On the back written in pencil is a note: "For use with Areca nuts. Put with this sample because it looks most like a creeper of any samples in case! 9/15/26 JBL root is a diuretic + is used by Malays an intermittent fevers etc.- Baillon. Dic. de botanique v2.". |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1994.X.13365j - Other Number | 6669 - Other Number |
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