Medicine

P1613.3

From: Sumatra

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number P1613.3
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Sumatra
Date Made 1901
Section Oceanian
Materials Plant Material | Cotton
Description

Medicine bag, tan with well-spaced vertical thin red stripes. Lining tan with narrow blue stripes. Patched. Stain in bottom corner. Tied with tan string. Contains dark powdery substance and larger fragments (potentially) of bark. Tag: [hard to read] . . . for after childbirth."

Length 23 cm
Width 16 cm
Thickness 3 cm
Credit Line Gift of H. M. Hiller and Alfred C. Harrison Jr., 1901
Other Number P1613C - Old Museum Number

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