| Object Number | 2003-41-25O |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Indochina | Vietnam |
| Locus | Cochinchina |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Dye | Plant | Leaf |
| Description | A sample of leaves used for yellow dyeing. A piece of paper with handwriting in French in black and red ink says: "Cochinchina 6657 Mat tinct feuilles n. o. La Dung Symplocos spicata Roxb Symplocaceae pour teinture jaune". Another piece of paper with handwriting reads: "LEAVES yield YELLOW DYE Symplocos spicata COCHIN-CHINA". A label reads: "SYMPLOCOS LEAVES yield a yellow dye". |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1994.X.13365o - Other Number | 6657 - Other Number |
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