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Image Not Available for "Nam pla" or "fish-water" - a typically Siamese condiment
"Nam pla" or "fish-water" - a typically Siamese condiment
Image Not Available for "Nam pla" or "fish-water" - a typically Siamese condiment
Object Number 35-36-60/1819
Display Title "Nam pla" or "fish-water" - a typically Siamese condiment
Descriptions
Object Description "Nam pla" or "fish-water" - a typically Siamese condiment
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Thai?
  • Laotian Thai?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Thailand
Additional Geographic Terms Indochina, Central; Bangkok

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Large jar to hold "plara" a condiment made of mixture of fish, salt +
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Jar
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Small "sai pla" - fish basket
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Basket
Thailand
Image Not Available for Sample of "pla durao" - dried fish
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Thailand
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Medfield sewer
Village. typically dispersed. f.g. pig sty; m.g. rect cook house and round house.
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Documentary
New Guinea
Wooden condiment fork
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Fork
Burma
Wooden condiment spoon
2012.13.10.1 Wooden condiment spoon
Spoon
Burma
Stone pestle - for grinding condiments
35-36-60/1858 Stone pestle - for grinding condiments
Pestle
Thailand
Carved wooden mortar for grinding of condiments
35-36-60/1857 Carved wooden mortar for grinding of condiments
Mortar
Thailand
2 tall wooden figures on 1 base - possibly used for condiments
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Figurine
Luzon
Divining outfit: scale of pangolin; "nonga nam mabe"=a sucession of evils
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Charm
Cameroon
Collected from surface of 1986 excavation area; 17 White and tan cigarette filters, degraded; 2 metal alloy bottle caps, 1 Orangina, 1 Pepsi; 3 plastic flatware fragments; 15 clear, colorless plastic fragments; 2 ball point pens; White cotton twine fragments, lavendar polyester ribbon fragment, beige fabric bandage fragment; silver colored duct tape fragment; 3 metal alloy nail, 1 with yellow flagging tape; 1 shell fragment; 1 aqua flat glass fragment; 11 paper condiment packs; 16 white styrofoam packing peanut fragments; 12 gold and silver colored foil fragments; 19 paper fragments; 52 colorless cellophane fragments
987-22-10/110149 Collected from surface of 1986 excavation area; 17 White and tan cigarette filters, degraded; 2 metal alloy bottle caps, 1 Orangina, 1 Pepsi; 3 plastic flatware fragments; 15 clear, colorless plastic fragments; 2 ball point pens; White cotton twine fragments, lavendar polyester ribbon fragment, beige fabric bandage fragment; silver colored duct tape fragment; 3 metal alloy nail, 1 with yellow flagging tape; 1 shell fragment; 1 aqua flat glass fragment; 11 paper condiment packs; 16 white styrofoam packing peanut fragments; 12 gold and silver colored foil fragments; 19 paper fragments; 52 colorless cellophane fragments
Foil
Screwtop
Twine
Plastic
Textile
Organic
Nail
Styrofoam
Harvard Yard