box
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact23867
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.221
- Description
- Rectangular, unpainted tin box with top. Chinese characters on yellow coloured label attached to one side. Some water marks and discoloration on label. Box is first from left in photo.
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Company," Victoria, B.C.
- Classification
- Chemical T&E
- Marks/Labels
- Label contains three Chinese characters that are literally translated to: "sea" and "gold" and "sand." When adjusted to English comprehension, product is "Spora Lygodii / Japanese Climbing Fern Spore." The mature spore of the perennial climbing fern Lygodium japonicum (Thunb.) of Family Lygodiaceae, this can be found in Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces, etc.
- Measurements
- 8 cm height x 10 cm width x 13 cm length