Some Asian menstrual
products:
Japan:
"Origami" tampon: Anshin (Japan, 1977)
Tampons, box, directions. Origami
applicator. (Tambrands gift, 1997) It's
the same as Ortex Gold
and Cameo
tampons.
Cellopon (Japan,
1968) Box, instructions, tampons. No
applicator. With a discussion of the mutual influence of
European and Japanese
art & an example from Van Gogh.
Elldy (Japan)
tampon with finger
cots, box - ad
in Junie magazine (October 1996).
Shampon Young
stick tampon (Japan, 1977)
Japanese pads and belts,
early 20th century: instructions
for making the so-called uma (pony or
horse, because it resembled in function the
device on horses to catch feces).
Ads for Japanese commercial menstrual
belts from the
early 20th century with a comparison with
the English source of the drawing: Aubrey
Beardsley, England's best artist (just my
opinion).
Early 20th
century ads
for Japanese menstrual belts, pads & underpants with some translation.
Thailand:
Thai magazine ad,
date?
China:
Chinese
pad and belt (2000)
Chinese pad, Anerle
Chinese panty pad, Huitlao
India:
Washable menstrual pads for women in
Almora, Uttar Pradesh
state, India,
giving them more freedom (1999).
Teaching girls in rural southern Rajasthan
about puberty, menstruation and how to make
washable menstrual pads.
More
recent information about menstrual
management in India with an article critical of this
museum.
Some tampon
curiosities: L & F [Lehn & Fink]
Improved Tampons (U.S.A.,
1930s-1940s?) Box,
instructions, some tampons. From the
company that made Lysol.
- Medical tampons mentioned
in newspapers, U.S.A., 1894-1921 - o.b. folder, Germany,
early 1950s (tells
what o.b. means!)
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MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S
HEALTH
Emil menstrual tampons,
Japan, 1974
The tampon
Tampon
directory. Related products
in the column at left.
I thank
the former Tambrands, once
maker of Tampax tampons, for
donating this box!
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Below
& right: Two
views of the 'pon right
from the box.
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Below:
"Das Ding an sich": "The
thing in itself." FINALLY,
I get to use some of the
philosophy I majored in at
Johns Hopkins even though
I'm not using it correctly
but you wouldn't know the
difference anyway - er,
would you?
Anyway, it's an Emil
tampon that's escaped
its wrapper, as
you may have guessed. It
measures 4 1/2" (11.4 cm)
long.
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Below:
Emil, dissected.
The thicker outer
tube (far left) measures
2 3/4 x 1/2" (6.9 x 1.2 cm).
The inner
tube measures 2 7/8 x
3/8" (7.3 x 1 cm).
The irregularly shaped plug is
about 1 7/8 x 7/16" (4.8 x 1.1
cm), the string
4 7/8 " (12.2 cm).
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Below
& right: Like
Tampax,
the string enters the plug
of cotton at the side.
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