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1903.41.1.42

Knot of wood, used medicinally [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/1/2005]

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1903.41.1.42

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Collection type
Object
Description
Knot of wood, 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 Wood Plant
Dimensions
Length: max 35 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1903.41.1.42 Other numbers: 26
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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