Salt; round chunk with know-like protrusions; a rarely used delicacy; used especially to spice pork and human flesh
Donor:
Klaus Koch and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Pass Valley, Central Highlands, Papua Province, Indonesia
Culture or time period:
Dani
Materials:
Salt (inorganic material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Chunks (lithics)
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1967
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1966-1967 #102: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (May 3, 1967–May 3, 1967), S1967-1968 #61: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (November 17, 1967–November 17, 1967), S1971-1972 #147: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (May 24, 1972–May 24, 1972), and S1984-1985 #42: Chevron USA, Inc. (May 3, 1985–May 3, 1985)