- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Medicine known as Shih.
- Cultural groups
- Chaouia Berber
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1913
- Date collected
- 1913 - 1938
- Acquisition information
- Bequeathed: 1938
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant
- Dimensions
- Length: max 138 mm tube
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1938.16.67
- Research and responses
Artemisia is the wormwood genus [Encyclopædia Britannica Online]. [CF 2/3/2000]
Related Documents File - See RDF for labels written by Hilton-Simpson for various objects in this collection. [E.S-R 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 21/12/2004]
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