Sample | Artefact Description | Geographical Origin | Collector and Date Collected | Photograph | Notes | Description of sample |
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PRM23 | “Xanthorrhea (‘blackboy’) gum from the base of a burnt grass-tree stem.” | Near Mount Victoria in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia | Henry Balfour, 23 August 1914 |
| Local name: ‘black boy’ | Deep red, brittle |
Function: Adhesive | ||||||
Accession number: 1914.38.3 | ||||||
PRM25 | “Cowrie [shell] filled with spinifex gum, used by the TAKETA (doctor) for rubbing over the affected part.” | Sherlock River, (NW) Western Australia | Emile Clement, by 1924 |
| Cultural group: Ngarluma (Gnalluma) | Black, hard |
Function: Medicinal | ||||||
Catalogue card: “Medicine” shell (Cypraia serpentis) filled with gum. The Taketa (doctor) rubs the patient with this. Length of shell 6 cm. | ||||||
Accession number: 1924.63.11 | ||||||
PRM26 | Cowrie filled with spinifex gum, used by the TAKETA (doctor) for rubbing over the affected part. | Sherlock River, (NW) Western Australia | Emile Clement, by 1924 |
| Cultural group: Ngarluma | Yellowish black, glassy and brittle |
Function: Medicinal | ||||||
Catalogue card: “Medicine” shell (Cypraia incipiens) filled with gum. The Taketa (doctor) rubs the patient with this. Length of shell 4.8 cm. | ||||||
Accession number: 1924.63.12 | ||||||
PRM27 | 4 lumps of bees wax | Wanigera (Wanigela), in Collingwood Bay, Oro Province, British New Guinea | W.H. Chignell, by 1908 |
| Cultural group: Ubir | Yellowish brown, soft and waxy |
Function: Adhesive | ||||||
Local name: kemeri | ||||||
Catalogue card: “Wax, Kemeri, from wild bees’ nests, for fixing ornamental seeds, beads, etc.” | ||||||
Accession number: 1908.70.93 | ||||||
PRM28 | 4 lumps of bee’s wax or resin used as an adhesive. | Wanigera, in Collingwood Bay, Oro Province, British New Guinea | W.H. Chignell, by 1908 |
| Cultural group: Ubir | Yellowy amber, glassy and brittle |
Local name: fiufiu | ||||||
Function: Adhesive | ||||||
Catalogue card: “fiufiu, resin used as an adhesive”. | ||||||
Accession number: 1908.70.94 | ||||||
PRM29 | “Gum from the canarium almond tree. Mixed with tobacco to make a cool smoke. In a native packet of palm leaf.” | Kurtachi, Bougainville, Northern Solomons province of Papua New Guinea | Beatrice Blackwood, 1930 |
| Cultural group: Kurtachi village | Black, brittle |
Local name: tagon | ||||||
Function: Narcotic | ||||||
Catalogue card: “Tagon. Gum from canarium almond tree. Mixed with tobacco to make a cool smoke. In a native packet of palm leaf.” 17 cm width c.4.8 cm Colour dark brown. | ||||||
Accession number: 1931.86.335 |