Dye
2003-41-25P
From: Indochina | Burma | Rangoon
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 2003-41-25P |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Indochina | Burma | Rangoon |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Dye |
| Description | A sample of bark used as a yellow dye. A piece of paper with handwriting on it reads on one side: "Case 163-4 Names "Yamein" (Bark) Aporosa villosa Baill, Euphorbiaceae Locality Rangoon, India, 8583 Uses Bark yields a red dye. Ref Watt Dict Econ Prod. India. Vol 1-278". The other side reads: "Case 163-4 Names "Yamein" Aporosa villosa". Another piece of paper has handwriting that says: "BARK yields a RED DYE aporosa villosa BURMA". A label with a yellow background and a red border reads: "APOROSA BARK Yields a red dye.". |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1994.X.13365p - Other Number | 8583 - Other Number |
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