Box containing tinder

Made:: 1900-1909 in Punjab and Dera Ghazi Khan

Cardboard box
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Cardboard box, containing tinder made from axils of the leaves of the dwarf palm tree, Mazari tribe, Dera Ghazi Kahn, Punjab, Pakistan & Punjab, India, 1900-1909

Details

Category:: Asian Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A655247

Materials:: leaf and chamarops rithicanae

Measurements:: box: 43 mm x 128 mm x 96 mm,

type:: tinder-box

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