Mat, Rush
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1890
name: label: Donor Name
content: Romyn Hitchcock
notes: label: Notes
content: From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Mat. - Made of the rush Scirpus maritimus, the suge of the Japanese, with black or brown colored squares of dyed bark of Tilia cordata. The elm bark is also used for the colored parts. The brown color is obtained from the bark of Aesculus turbinata, the black from Alnus maritima. Ainos of Yezo, 1888. Collected by Romyn Hitchcock."
label: Notes
content: Presumably Japanese lime, shina-no-ki or Tilia japonica, rather than Tilia cordata? Alnus maritima is presumably Alnus japonica or Japanese alder? Aesculus turbinata = common name "Japanese horse-chestnut".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hokkaido (Yezo), Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 022393
label: USNM Number
content: E150633-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mat