Mittens "Tekumbe"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1890
name: label: Donor Name
content: Romyn Hitchcock
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "1 pair. Jap[anese] cotton cloth."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 8.7 p. 78 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 Ainu cloth mittens probably made from a used Japanese kimono. Cloth has a blue resist-dyed pattern of a type popular in the mid-nineteenth century.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 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, Piratori Ainu
label: Culture
content: Japanese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 022393
label: USNM Number
content: E150688-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mitten
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 22.7 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 12.7 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 0.6 cm