A tooth [.1]; a stone [.2] and a piece of ?root [.3], used medicinally [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/1/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: A tooth [.1]; a stone [.2] and a piece of ?root [.3], used medicinally [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/1/2005]
Geographical reference: Malaysia
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Malaysia; Sarawak
Cultural groups: Iban
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source The Government Museum, Sarawak
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1903
Date collected: By 1903
Acquisition information: Exchanged: 1903
Materials and processes: Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Material Plant, Material Stone
Dimensions: Length: max 25 mm, Length: max 22 mm, Length: max 28 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1903.41.1.37.1 Accession number: 1903.41.1.37.2 Accession number: 1903.41.1.37.3 Other numbers: 21
Associated publications: Related Documents File - Offprint: 'On Two Medicine-Baskets from Sarawak', by R. Shelford, M.A., Curator of Sarawak Museum. Presented February 10, 1903, with illustrations, and originally printed in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Vol. XXXIII, January - June, 1903. Published by the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, London. [MOB 22/10/2001] Illustrated with a line drawing in the leaflet 'Basketry in The Pitt Rivers Museum', devised by Felicity Wood with the Oxfordshire Basketmakers, 2001. It is also featured on the website www.basket.prm.ox.ac.uk [JN 14/11/2001]

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