Mineral specimen, a medicine (red iron oxide)

Collection type: Object
Description: Mineral specimen, a medicine (red iron oxide)
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 Mineral
Dimensions: Diameter: max 70 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.60.18 Other numbers: 51
Associated publications: JAI, 1878: 461 'Koi-ôb-chûlnga da This is obtained from mineral springs (red oxide of iron) which are fairly plentiful in these jungles. This specimen has been dried in the sun. When baked on the fire it is called 'Upla' (v No 49). It is applied in its liquid form, as found, to sores on the person, and when suffering from fever, and is drunk as a cure for coughs, fevers etc. It is often kept dried for convenience and then, when required for use medically water is added but a fresh supply is preferred to this (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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