Dried lily-root disks, "turep"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 2005
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Several starch discs with holes in the center and wood stick threaded through holes. Long strips of curly wood shavings arranged along the length and tied to ends. Fiber cord tied on each end to make a handle. According to Chisato Dubreuil, these are used to store starch for the winter. Made for the 1999 NMNH exhibit "Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People" using traditional Ainu materials and techniques.
label: Notes
content: Presumably Lilium cordatum, called turep by Ainu. See p. 148, 151 inftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/i0370e/i0370e08.pdf
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: 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: 2026093
label: USNM Number
content: E430599-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Root
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 82 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 22 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 11 cm