- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Piece of plant resin used for making tattooing pigment. [El.B DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 30/09/2010]
- Cultural groups
- Māori
- Person
- Field collector Charles Smith
- PRM source The Executors of the Charles Smith Estate
- PRM source Alfred T. Collier
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1869?, uncertain
- Date collected
- 1860 - 1869?
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1923
- Materials and processes
- Material Resin Plant
- Dimensions
- Width: max 100 mm, Length: max 110 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1923.87.193
- Research and responses
Sampled for analysis by Fiona Bradshaw October 2011 [JU 21/10/11]
Search terms: Body Art, Specimen, Pigment, Tattooing Accessory, Body Art Accessory
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