ointment sample;
medical/medicine equipment
- Museum number
- Af2002,08.9.a-b
- Description
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Indian Ayurvedic medicine. Cardboard box (a) with tube (b) of ointment for skin-lightening; white plastic tube with pink cap, pink writing reading "Ɛmami Naturally Fair Herbal Fairness Cream manufactured by Emami Limited, Calcutta"; tube contained in cardboard box; ingrediends: sandalwood, wheatgerm, liquorice, aloe vera, milk, cucumber & coconut water, Spanish saffron, witch hazel, comfrey, chamomile and horse-chestnut.
- Production date
- 2000s
- Dimensions
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Height: 16 centimetres (a)
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Height: 15.50 centimetres (b)
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Width: 3.10 centimetres (a)
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Width: 3.50 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 2.50 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 2.20 centimetres (b)
- Curator's comments
- See Hsu, Elizabeth. "'The medicine from China has rapid effects': Chinese medicine patients in Tanzania. " In: Anthropology & Medicine, 2002;9(3):291-313.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2002
- Acquisition notes
- Cost for entire collection.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af2002,08.9.a-b
