Medicine

P1613.43

From: Sumatra

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number P1613.43
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Sumatra
Date Made 1901
Section Oceanian
Materials Plant Material | Cotton
Description

Medicine bag, tan. Highly fragmentary. Tied with red string. Contains small amount of fine brown dustlike powder, as well as black slender objects of about 0.7 cm - likely droppings. Label reads "Kayu sapat mix | Maja han billin obat | to constrict the vagina."

Credit Line Gift of H. M. Hiller and Alfred C. Harrison Jr., 1901
Other Number P1613QQ - Old Museum Number

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