Medicine
29-237-2
From: China | Guangdong
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 29-237-2 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Chinese |
| Provenience | China | Guangdong |
| Date Made | 19th Century |
| Section | Asian |
| Description | 菓皮. Clausena lansium (wampee). Orange Peel. From Guangdong province. Value at Guangzhou, $30 per picul.Brown material. Looks like tree bark. One of a collection of samples of Chinese medicine, each in an individual glass jar sealed with cork top. MCC on the bottom of the glass jar indicates it was probably made by William McCully and Company, Pittsburgh, PA. The specimen was most likley rebottled after it was donated to the museum. |
| Credit Line | Gift of R. Stewart Culin, pre-1903 |
| Other Number | 3793 - Other Number | CG98-1-72.2 - Found in Collection Number |
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