Screens "Suiren"
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: ONE OF TEN PANELS ORIGINALLY RECEIVED IN 1860. BLACK LACQUER FRAME. CENTRAL PART OF SCREEN COMPOSED OF THIN BAMBOO STRIPS SURROUNDED WITH PAPER. BRASS CORNER STRIPS. FROM CARD: "MAY 1969 OVER THE YEARS THESE HAD BADLY DETERIORATED BECAUSE OF THEIR FLIMSEY CONSTRUCTION, SO THAT ABOUT 1955 THE PARTS WERE TURNED OVER TO FREER CONSERVATION LAB, WHO RESTORED ONE TO BE PRESERVED.-R. ELDER. REMAINDER OF PARTS DISCARDED. ONE WAS ON LOAN IN DIRECTOR'S OFFICE FOR MANY YEARS. THESE ARE BLACK LACQUER FRAMES WITH THE SCREEN PARTS OF THIN BAMBOO STRIPS., SURROUNDED WITH PAPER (WHICH IS VERY FRAGILE), AND THE CORNERS HAVE BRASS STRIPS ATTACHED. INVENTORIED 1968. *THOUGH IT HAS NOT BEEN VERIFIED, IT SEEMS POSSIBLE THAT THESE WERE NOT FROM PERRY BUT WERE PART OF THE GIFT FROM THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN, DURING THE FIRST AMBASSADORS' VISIT IN 1860, TO PRES. JAMES BUCHANAN. R. ELDER. ESTABLISHED AS FIRST JAPANESE MISSION COLLECTION BY CHANG-SU HOUCHINS 3/30/1979.
label: Notes
content: 'INCORRECTLY INCLUDED AS PART OF PERRY ACCESSION (#199043) PROPOSAL PENDING TO ACCESSION AS SEPARATE COLLECTION (FIRST JAPANESE MISSION TO THE U.S.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 60A00001
label: USNM Number
content: E14166-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Screen