Lacquerware Picnic Box (Bento-Bako; Sageju-Bako)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "RECTANGULAR WOODEN CHEST STANDING ON EDGE, CLEAR LACQUERED OUTSIDE, INSIDE DIVIDED INTO 4 COMPARTMENTS WHICH CONTAIN: 1 COVERED RED LACQUERED BOX, L.20.4 CM., W.11 CM., D.6 CM. 3 SQUARE WOODEN BOXES (2 COVERED), RED LACQUERED, 11 X 12 CM. 1 COVERED RED LACQUERED BOX. L.11 CM., W. 7.2 CM. 1 RECTANGULAR PEWTER CONTAINER, CLOSED EXCEPT FOR SMALL OPENING IN TOP AND A SPOUT ON ONE CORNER. THIS EVIDENTLY FOR HOT WATER. BRASS HANDLE ON TOP AND TWO COPPER CORNERS."
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 30
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Dec 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 12
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: E162-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Picnic Box
physicalDescription: label: Length - Box 1
content: 20.4 cm
label: Width - Box 1
content: 11 cm
label: Depth - Box 1
content: 6 cm
label: Unknown - Box 2
content: 11 cm
label: Unknown - Box 2
content: 12 cm
label: Length - Box 3
content: 11 cm
label: Width - Box 3
content: 7.2 cm
label: Length
content: 14 cm
label: Width
content: 22.5 cm
label: Height
content: 21.5 cm