FMNH 108657.nosub[1]

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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | ENT | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-26 | Country: Luzon, P.I. | Locality: Abra. Manabo - ["A" crossed out] | People: Tinguian Stock. | Name: Bai-yatin. Small hard red berries which are boiled, pounded fine with shell and put in the water where fish abound. It acts as a poison or stupefier to them and they soon float on the surface where they are easily secured. | Collection: R.F. Cummings Expedition, (F.C. Cole, 1907-8). | Notes: The fish are later eaten, with no evil effects. | Width: | Length: | Height: | Price: - | [LEFT MARGIN] A | 108657 | 41 | Acc. 1060 | [ILLUSTRATION] | [ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] | [BACK] |
Catalog Number: 108657.nosub[1]
Description: fish poison
Materials: berries
Cultural Attribution: Tinguian
Accession Number: [1060] Second R.F. Cummings Ethnological Expedition to Philippine Islands - ethnology - Mangyan (Expedition)
Accession Year: 1908
Other Numbers: 41
District/County: Abra Prov.
City/Town: Monabo
Collector/Source: Second R.F. Cummings Ethnological Expedition to Philippine Islands - ethnology - Mangyan, Dr. Fay-Cooper Cole : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
EMu IRN: 1009233
GUID: 747fb6a4-27f3-4890-970e-c04ffdb8e953

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