Basket (Kago)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "OPENWORK BASKETRY BOWL, WHICH ONCE HAD A HANDLE MADE OF SMALL STEMS OF BAMBOO. **IT APPEARS THAT THIS AND OTHER BASKETS HAD BEEN RENUMBERED THREE TIMES BY MISTAKE: 275; 4144; 4324."
label: Notes
content: See Chang-Su Houchins. 1995. Artifacts of Diplomacy: Smithsonian Collections from Commodore Matthew Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854). Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, Number 37. P 98 and 99; this is the second basket described by Houchins for this catalogue number (the main basket described and illustrated is E117-0).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: 199043
label: USNM Number
content: E117-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 9 cm