Covered Pottery Jar, For Tea (?) (Chaki?; Choka?)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SAME AS CAT. NO. 134: DARK BROWN GLAZED COVERED CYLINDRICAL POTTERY BOX."
label: Notes
content: At one time this was renumbered as 4199, however it was returned to original number of 175. It was subsequently misnumbered as 135, which it closely resembles, but has been corrected back to 175 in 2016. 4199 attributed as Seto area by Victor Hauge, per card for 4199.
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 58, entry # 36, where similar objects are described.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: E175-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Jar