Japanese Match-Lock Gun
name: label: Donor Name
content: Lt. Col. George C. Thorpe
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Rifled, octagon, 42-inch barrel, caliber 46; total length, 54 inches; barrel inlaid with silver decorations; full length, wooden stock, rather straight handle fastened with three brass bands; wooden ramrod; open sights; brass lock, with long brass spring outside of stock; small powder chamber with hinged brass cover; small round trigger knob; heavy brass trigger-guard; hole through stock for carrying cords. The stock is elaborately decorated with brass ornaments of various patterns; round silver ornament on handle. Japanese Samurai Temporary Exhibit April - July 1971. Transferred to [Division of] Ethnology [from Division of Technology] 29 Mar [19]60."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
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: 060676
label: USNM Number
content: E298257-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Gun