"Ohiyo" Bark, Elm Bark
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1890
name: label: Donor Name
content: Romyn Hitchcock
notes: label: Notes
content: From card; "Used to make cloth".
label: Notes
content: From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: " Ohiyo Bark. - The bark of the mountain elm, ulmus montana [Ulmus laciniata], used principally for making cloth for clothing. Ainos of Yezo, 1888. Collected by Romyn Hitchcock. The specimens show how the bark readily splits into numberous thin, broad bands or layers, from which long narrow threads for weaving are drawn, tied end to end and wound into balls. (4,787)."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 45.2 p. 314 of Fitzhugh, William W., and Chisato O. Dubreuil. 1999. Ainu: spirit of a northern people. [Washington, D.C.]: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in association with University of Washington Press. Identified there as inner bark (bast fiber) of Japanese elm, ohyo, which provided fiber for weaving attush, the staple material used to make Ainu clothing before cotton and silk fabrics were imported. It was also used for making cord, rope, and basketry.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Aug 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hokkaido (Yezo), Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu, Abashiri 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: E150677-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 75 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 11.4 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 3.1 cm