Cup: rubber tapping cup, coconut shell. Black latex caked around edges of cup. Placed below spout and used to collect latex drippings from tapped panels. Village has a surplus of coconut shell just laying around which can be pressed into service as tapping cups. These cups very inferior to ceramic, plastic, or glass, as the latex sticks to them and they retain moisture which causes coagulation of latex to be uneven. Diameter at top: 13.5 cm.
Donor:
Donald H. Lambert and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Kampung Pesagi, Pahang, Malaysia
Culture or time period:
Malaysian
Collector:
Donald H. Lambert
Collection date:
February 1977
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cups (drinking vessels)
Function:
1.3 Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
diameter 13.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1980-1981 #64: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Donald H. Lambert (April 22, 1981–April 22, 1981)