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A bag containing Musk from the E. Indies

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

December 10, 1806

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 19

Notes:

A musk bag is the musk-secreting gland of a male musk deer and of certain other species that are not native to the East Indies. Rosalba Carriera Peale (1799-1874) was an American portraitist, landscape painter, and lithographer and the eldest daughter of Rembrandt Peale.

Specimen Type:

Individual parts