Silk cocoons and paper mulberry leaves

Museum number:
9-15915a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3667 (original number, PPIE)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
(a) Bag of silk cocoons and (b) bag of mulberry leaves made of paper. Part of PPIE display demonstrating how the worms were grown, fed, and kept until cocoons were spun and collected. Worms are 3666. Goes with 3656-3677.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1979-1980 #61: Oakland Museum of California (May 16, 1972–May 21, 2008) and S1984-1985 #32: Oakland Museum of California (May 16, 1972–May 21, 2008)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Silk cocoons and paper mulberry leaves, accession number 9-15915a,b, described as (a) Bag of silk cocoons and (b) bag of mulberry leaves made of paper. Part of PPIE display demonstrating how the worms were grown, fed, and kept until cocoons were spun and collected. Worms are 3666. Goes with 3656-3677.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Silk cocoons and paper mulberry leaves, accession number 9-15915a,b, described as (a) Bag of silk cocoons and (b) bag of mulberry leaves made of paper. Part of PPIE display demonstrating how the worms were grown, fed, and kept until cocoons were spun and collected. Worms are 3666. Goes with 3656-3677.

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