Doll (Ningyo)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: " THREE JOINTED DOLL, MITSUORE NING YO, APPARENTLY MADE OF SOME VERY LIGHT WEIGHT COMPOSITION MATERIAL, COVERED WITH WHITE PLASTER AND COATING OF WHITE PAINT. ONLY THE CENTER OF ARMS MADE OF CLOTH, AND BLACK HAIR IS PASTED ON IN PATTERN ON THE HEAD. EYES APPARENTLY GLASS. APPEAR TO REPRESENT MALES. IN SPITE OF SOME RECENT REPAIRS IN JAPAN, WHITE PAINT IS BADLY CHIPPED. 4/1969 BOXES NOT LOCATED."
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 128 and 129.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Dec 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: E304-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Doll
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 25.3 cm
label: Width
content: 7 cm