Lacquered Covered Bowl (Suimonowan)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: RECATALOGED AS ETHNOLOGY # 4172 AND # 4168 IN THE 1950'S. LATER CANCELLED. CANCELLED NUMBER, IN BRACKETS, REMAINS ON OBJECT. FROM CARD: "BOWL SHAPED WOODEN CUP ON A FOOTRING. LACQUERED RED ALL OVER. SAUCER SAME THIN WOOD, SHALLOW CONCAVE SHAPE ON FOOTRING. THE LACQUER ON MANY OF THESE SPECIMENS IS VERY THIN AND POOR AND HAS CRACKED OVER THE YEARS."
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 14, entry # 2, where identical 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: E136-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl