Ocher

Museum number:
18-220
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21180000220
Accession number:
Acc.1973
Description:
Lumps of ocre; two orange, three reddish-brown; one shows smoothing and striation. “Commonly found in Malayan Neolithic sites - rare in Gua Kechil I and II, abundant in Gua Kechil III (Alcove trech).”
Donor:
Frederick L. Dunn and UC San Francisco Medical Center
Collection place:
Gua Kechil (cave), Raub District, Pahang State, Malaysia
Collector:
UC San Francisco Medical Center
Collection date:
March 8, 1964
Materials:
Ocher (pigment)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Painting supplies
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Ocher, accession number 18-220, described as Lumps of ocre; two orange, three reddish-brown; one shows smoothing and striation. “Commonly found in Malayan Neolithic sites - rare in Gua Kechil I and II, abundant in Gua Kechil III (Alcove trech).”Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Ocher, accession number 18-220, described as Lumps of ocre; two orange, three reddish-brown; one shows smoothing and striation. “Commonly found in Malayan Neolithic sites - rare in Gua Kechil I and II, abundant in Gua Kechil III (Alcove trech).”Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Ocher, accession number 18-220, described as Lumps of ocre; two orange, three reddish-brown; one shows smoothing and striation. “Commonly found in Malayan Neolithic sites - rare in Gua Kechil I and II, abundant in Gua Kechil III (Alcove trech).”Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Ocher, accession number 18-220, described as Lumps of ocre; two orange, three reddish-brown; one shows smoothing and striation. “Commonly found in Malayan Neolithic sites - rare in Gua Kechil I and II, abundant in Gua Kechil III (Alcove trech).”
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Ocher, accession number 18-220, described as Lumps of ocre; two orange, three reddish-brown; one shows smoothing and striation. “Commonly found in Malayan Neolithic sites - rare in Gua Kechil I and II, abundant in Gua Kechil III (Alcove trech).”

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