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Box Chinese

Title:

Box

Ethnic groups:

Chinese

Territory:

Primorsky Oblast, Ussuri Krai

Date:

late 19th - early 20th century

Collectors:

Museum of the Peoples of the USSR

Rubrics:

storage

Material:

Metal: copper; paper

Dimensions:

diameter 7.2; height 5.2

Number:

РЭМ 8761-11142

Annotation:

Cylindrical, made of copper. A thin metal rim is provided along the mouth on the outside. The walls are low. The box’s bottom is lined inside with thick white paper. It was used to store ready-to-use opium when staying on the hunting/harvesting site.

Albums:
“... You can rely on me”: Vladimir Arseniev’s collections in the Russian Museum of Ethnography
Rus:
Коробка. Китайцы