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Ginseng root. Chinese

Title:

Ginseng root

Ethnic groups:

Chinese

Territory:

Ussuri Krai, Primorsky Oblast

Date:

early 20th century

Collectors-person:
Arseniev Vladimir K.
Material:

Wood

Dimensions:

length 7.4

Number:

РЭМ 1928-25

Annotation:

A small slightly bent fragment of a brown root with a knobby surface. It is slightly wider on one end. Chinese harvesters found places where ginseng grew in the largest quantities, and set up plantations there, to which they moved single roots found elsewhere. They dug them out very carefully, with special ivory sticks. Ginseng was an object of gathering for many peoples in the Far East. It was valued in the oriental medicine for its healing properties.

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