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1884.60.20

Clay specimen, a medicine. In glass jar.

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1884.60.20

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Collection type
Object
Description
Clay specimen, a medicine. In glass jar.
Date / Period
Date made: Possibly before 1878
Date collected
?Prior to 1878
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Clay, Material Earth
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.60.20 PR no.: ? 90/ 11935
Associated publications
JAI, 1878: 461 'Tâla-ôg-da This is not plentiful as the 'Ôg' When required for use it is, like the Ôg powdered and mixed with water. It is applied ornamentally except when mourning. The painting is done by the women who spare no pains in executing by means of their finger nails neat designs on the persons of their friends and relatives. It is also sometimes applied ornamentally to their bows, baby slings (v No 25) baskets trays sounding boards pails etc. The women when enceinte occasionally eat small quantities of this clay (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' A group photograph of specimen bottles of Andaman Islander and Australian Aboriginal pigments (1884.33.52, 1884.60.20, 1884.60.21, 1898.75.60, 1898.75.61) was published as a PRM postcard, April 2002. [JC 5 7 2002] A group photograph of specimen bottles of Andaman Islander and Australian Aboriginal pigments (1884.33.52, 1884.60.20, 1884.60.21, 1898.75.60, 1898.75.61) was reproduced in colour on page 28 of 'Beauty of the World', by Mike O'Hanlon, in Oxford Today: The University Magazine, Vol. XIV, no. 3 (Trinity Issue 2002), pp. 28-30. [JC 5 7 2002]

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