bottle;
dye sample
- Museum number
- Oc1857,0318.18
- Description
-
Bottle made of European glass with a wooden (?) stopper, containing a sample of liquid dye made of sap from a tree.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 20.50 centimetres
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Width: 9 centimetres
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Depth: 4.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Handwritten stuck-on label attached to bottle:
The sap of a tree from Norfolk Island/ procured by making incisions in the /bark used as a red dye for wood
Tied on red-rimmed rectangular label (folded in half and not readable):
Bottle of sap 51
of Blood tree 3-18
Norfolk Isd 18
Pres by admiralty
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1857
- Acquisition notes
- From the HMS Herald SW Pacific expedition of 1852-1861.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1857,0318.18
