Medicine

97-122-115

From: San Francisco (California)

Curatorial Section: Asian

Object Number 97-122-115
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chinese
Provenience San Francisco (California)
Date Made 1800-1924
Section Asian
Materials Insect
Description

Box with ground beetle parts, called Tu Bie Chong (土鳖虫 ) in Chinese. Label with box reads: Chinese medicine. Opisthoplatia orientalis. Southern China. Mrs. J.D. Chandler.

Credit Line Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997
Other Number L-122-115 - Old Museum Number | 29398 - ANSP Number

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