Food Lily-Root
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1880
name: label: Donor Name
content: Sapporo Agricultural College
notes: label: Notes
content: Note: on p. 440 of "The Ainos of Yezo, Japan," by Romyn Hitchcock, U.S. National Museum Annual Report for 1890, HItchcock indicates that the Tsuishikari Ainu had come from Sakhalin Island in 1875 and settled in the Ishikari River valley of Hokkaido, Japan, not too far from Sapporo. He says: "I was unable to visit them, but through the courtesy of Mr. H. Sato, of the Sapporo Agricultural College, I was able to secure a valuable collection of articles from them ..."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hokkaido (Yezo), Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu, Tsuishikari Ainu
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 022633
label: USNM Number
content: E150789-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Food