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Vessel. Chinese

Title:

Vessel

Ethnic groups:

Chinese

Territory:

river Armu, Primorsky Oblast, Ussuri Krai

Date:

late 19th - early 20th century

Material:

Bone: horn; leather

Dimensions:

length 7.0; width 5.0; height 16.0

Number:

РЭМ 8761-11143

Collectors:

Museum of the Peoples of the USSR

Annotation:

Made of bull horn. There is an indentation on the mouth edge, and a loop of narrow thin string is attached on the opposite side. The Chinese used such vessels when gathering raw opium: juice was collected from a cut poppy capsule with a finger, which was wiped on the indentation on the vessel’s edge.

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