Saddle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1860
label: Collection Date
content: 1860
name: label: Donor Name
content: First Japanese Mission To The USA
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PRESENTED BY TYCOON [OF JAPAN] TO HON. LEWIS CASS. THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CENTRAL WOODEN PART AND STIRRUPS, WHICH IS ALL THAT THERE IS TO THIS NO. IS ESSENTIALLY THE SAME AS CAT. NO. 14,190, OF LACQUERED WOOD IN GOLD SPECKLED RUSSET COLOR."
label: Notes
content: Note: The records indicate that this object was presented to Lewis Cass (Secretary of State under President James Buchanan) by the "Tycoon" of Japan, through the members of the First Japanese Mission to the U.S. in 1860. The catalogue card interprets this to mean the Emperor of Japan. However, in the Edo Period of Japan, the word Taikun was used as a diplomatic title designating the Shogun of Japan in relations with foreign countries, as an attempt to convey that the shogun was more important than the Japanese Emperor. A modified version of this word appears in English as "tycoon".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 60A00001
label: USNM Number
content: E14191-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Saddle / Stirrup