Dye

Medicine

42-35-453

From: El Salvador

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 42-35-453
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience El Salvador
Culture Area Central American
Locus coast
Section American
Materials Brazil Nut Bark
Description

Brazil nut tree bark used as dye for coloring textiles orange and red. Outside bark is used as medicine.

Length 18 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942
Other Number s-6 - Collector Number

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