1884.60.22

Collection type

Object

Description

Plant specimen, a medicine, in a bundle. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 24/11/2004]

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 Plant Leaf, Material Wood Plant

Dimensions

Length: max 1310 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.60.22 Other numbers: 79

Associated publications

JAI, 1878: 464 'Jînî-da (Epicarpurus orientalis). When engaged in gathering honey they smear themselves with the sap which is obtained by chewing. A fine spray is also squirted from the mouth towards the bees, who are driven off by the smell, which is particularly obnoxious to them, and they do not venture to attack those whose persons are smeared with the sap. On the occasion of a honey feast day the fibres of this plant are tied round their limbs. The juice is sometimes swallowed as a cure for coughs (1 bundle)' [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]

Search terms: Medicine, Specimen, Plant