Samurai sword polishing at the National Museum of Natural History film
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1991.17.1
name: label: Photographer
content: Krantz, Victor
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Printing and Photographic Services, Natural History Building in 1991.
creator: label: Photographer
content: Krantz, Victor
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (18 minutes, color silent; 600 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: December 1971
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "Samurai Sword Polishing, NMNH, December 1971 1971."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1991.17
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Silent films
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Titles are supplied by the archivist for untitled films.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Full film record of a Japanese sword polisher cleaning all the Samurai swords in the collections. Footage also includes Samurai warrior, Smithsonian anthropologist Eugene Knez, and Manager of the Department of Anthropology's Processing Lab, George Phebus, examining tsubas (sword hilts).

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