Hoe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LARGER THAN CAT. NO.375. SLIGHTLY CONCAVE WOODEN RECTANGLE, SHOD WITH IRON AROUND THE FRONT EDGE. THROUGH A SQUARE HOLE IN THE BACK PART IS INSERTED A LONG, STRAIGHT HEAVY WOODEN HANDLE. JAN. 1969 LOAN TO JAPAN SOCIETY, N.Y.C. "
label: Notes
content: Catalogue card calls this a hoe blade, however both the hoe blade and hoe handle are present, as noted on the card. This large hoe was not included in the Houchins publication on the Perry collection, Chang-Su Houchins. 1995. Artifacts of Diplomacy: Smithsonian Collections from Commodore Matthew Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854). Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, Number 37. Japanse hoe E375 was included in the book, and Houchins notes about it that the Japanese word for hoe is kuwa. Dr. James Morrow notes in Morrow, James, and Allan B. Cole. 1947. A Scientist with Perry in Japan : the Journal of Dr. James Morrow. Edited by Allan B. Cole. Chapel Hill: the University of North Carolina Press, that he acquired hoes for the expedition both in China and Japan. See also page 221 where Morrow records purchasing several hoes in China, and p. 233 where he purchase a hoe in Japan. On p. 119 Morrow notes that he saw Japanese hoes resembling Chinese hoes, "... but [they] had less wood and more iron in the blade."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Mar 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan (not certain) / China (not certain), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 199043
label: USNM Number
content: E374-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hoe