Elm Bark Fiber, Dyed
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1890
name: label: Donor Name
content: Romyn Hitchcock
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Brown, from bark of Aesculus turbinati. Black, from Alnus maritima."
label: Notes
content: From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Dyed Bark. - Bark of Tilia cordata (Japanese, shina-no-ki). The brown color is produced by soaking the bark in water with bark of Aesculus turbinata, the black in the same manner from Alus maritima. Ainos of Uragawa, Yezo 1888. Collected by Romyn Hitchcock. Much used for colored parts of mats, carrying-bags, etc."
label: Notes
content: "Tilia cordata" is more probably Tilia japonica, Japanese lime, called shina-noki. Alnus maritima is presumably Alnus japonica or Japanese alder? Aesculus turbinata = common name "Japanese horse-chestnut".
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 19.7 p. 151 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 bundle of ohyo fiber, processed from the inner bark of the elm tree, from which attush fabric was woven for clothing.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Sep 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hokkaido (Yezo), Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: 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: E150653-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 55.9 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 20.3 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 8.3 cm