| Object Number | 2003-41-25N |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Indochina | Burma |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Dye | Bark |
| Description | A sample of bark used for dyeing. A piece of paper with handwriting reads: "BARK used chiefly as a MORDANT in DYEING with madder and lac Baceaurea Sapida BURMA". A label with the piece reads: "BACCAUREA BARK Used a mordant in dyeing". Another piece with handwriting reads: "Bark of Baccaurea Sapida used for Dyeing Burma Paris Exhib. 1900". |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1994.X.13365n - Other Number |
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