A bundle of plant roots, tied with string - used medicinally [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/1/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: A bundle of plant roots, tied with string - used medicinally [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/1/2005]
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 Plant Root, Process Bound
Dimensions: Length: max 85 mm bundle
Object numbers: Accession number: 1903.41.1.48 Other numbers: 33
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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