Seed pigment
Description
In 1974 Waikato Museum acquired a selection of items, including this seed, from Graham Jackson. Jackson was a New Zealand anthropologist who spent time living with and researching the Kopon and the Kalam people of the Lower Kaironk Valley in Papua New Guinea.
Jackson fieldnotes: Dark brown seed used as a pigment. The seed of a tree called bals (not identified). It is burned to make charcoal to blacken string for making baskets etc.
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