Broom (Hoki)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "A SHEAF OF THIN PLANT STALKS (? CORN) WITH THE FINE BRANCHES OF THE HEAD END SPREAD OUT AS THE BROOM AND THE STALKS BOUND INTO A CYLINDER FOR THE HANDLE. *THOUGH THE DESIGNATION "CORN BROOM" WAS ONLY MADE ON THE THIRD NUMBERING, IT APPEARS AS THOUGH THESE WERE THE SPECIMENS., WHICH WERE RENUMBERED TWICE BY MISTAKE: 337; 4285. MAY 1969 ONLY ONE FOUND."
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 105
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 199043
label: USNM Number
content: E309-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Broom
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 65 cm
label: Width
content: 25 cm