Clay specimen, a medicine.

Collection type: Object
Description: Clay specimen, a medicine.
Geographical reference: Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Union Territory of India)
Asia > Southern Asia > Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Union Territory of India); Andaman Islands
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Edward Horace Man; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Possibly before 1878
Date collected: ?Prior to 1878
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Clay, Material Earth
Dimensions: Height: max 130 mm jar
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.60.16
Associated publications: JAI, 1878: 461 'Chûlnga da This blue-black clay is found in small springs in the jungle. In its liquid form it is drank as a cure for coughs, fever and aches in the body, head, limbs and it is applied to sores and parts in pain. It is sometimes kept dried for convenience 9v also ticket no 51) (In glass jar)' [Taken from 'List of Andamanese and Nicobarese Implements Ornaments etc presented to Major-General Lane Fox by EH Man esq and thus described by Mr Man 18th September 1877'[AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

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