Vessel For Tattooing Ink
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Jul 1903
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Section of cocoanut with a rattan handle. The ink is a mixture of dammar and charcoal thinned with sugar cane juice."
label: Notes
content: Information below taken from: Wikipedia contributors, "Dammar gum," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dammar_gum&oldid=605381851 (accessed August 11, 2014).: Dammar gum, or damar gum, is obtained from the Dipterocarpaceae family of trees in India and East Asia, principally those of the genera Shorea, Balanocarpus or Hopea. Most is produced by tapping trees; however, some is collected in fossilized form from the ground. The name is a Malay word meaning "resin" or "torch made from resin". There are two further types of damar, besides the gum: Mata kucing ("cat's eye") is a crystalline resin, usually in the form of round balls. Batu ("stone") is stone or pebble-shaped, opaque damar collected from the ground.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pagai Islands (Pagi Islands), Mentawai Islands, Indonesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Malay
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 041342
label: USNM Number
content: E221759-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pigment Container