Sandals Of Grape Vine Bark
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 May 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Benjamin S. Lyman
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "APPARENTLY PURCHASED IN YOKOHAMA, JAPAN." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SANDALS.---MADE OF GRAPE VINE BARK, COARSELY BRAIDED TO SHAPE OF FOOT; POINT COMES UP BEHIND HEEL TO WHICH IS FASTENED STRAW CORD THAT LACES THROUGH LOOPS AT SIDES AND TOE AND SECURES SANDAL TO FOOT. USED BY THE AINOS OF NORTH JAPAN. YESSO, JAPAN, 1876. 22,194. GIFT OF MR. BENJAMIN S. LYMAN."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 29.26 p. 221 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.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Aug 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given / Yokohama (purchased here), Hokkaido (Yezo) / Honshu, 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: 005204
label: USNM Number
content: E22194-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sandal
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 24.7 cm