brush
notes: label: Description
content: Wooden brush used for removing wood shavings during block cutting for Japanese printmaking. Bristles held in place by diagonal stitches. Fragment of paper label on handle. Woodblock-cutter's tool used in Graphic Arts exhibit of Japanese printmaking techniques from about 1890 to 1990s. Identified as No. 2 in watercolor drawing GA 03209.02 showing the tools of the block cutter.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Tokuno Gift
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of T. Tokuno, Chief of the Japanese Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Insatsukyoku), 1889-90
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.03210.02
label: accession number
content: 22582
label: catalog number
content: 03210.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: brush
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 cm x 2.5 cm; 7 15/32 in x 31/32 in