Fireworks "Hanabi; Kayaku"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1894
name: label: Donor Name
content: World's Columbian Exposition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3 PAPIER MACHE WHITE BOBBINS CONTAINING FIREWORKS (TAMA-GUSURI) DESIGNED TO DISPLAY VARIOUS DECORATIVE PATTERNS AND FORMS. ATTACHED TO EACH IS A SMALL CORD, APPROXIMATELY 6 CM. IN LENGTH. THE INSCRIPTIONS ON INDIVIDUAL BOBBINS READ: (1) IROMARI (COLORED BALLS); (2) YOTSU-DE DARUMA (SHOW OF FOUR DARUMA DOLLS); (3) TAMA YANAGI SAN-KUN KA (THREE FRAGRANT FLOWERS AMONG THE BEAUTIFUL WILLOW BRANCHES). MADE BY TEINOSUKE FURUKAWA. WOODEN GUN SAID TO ACCOMPANY THESE FIREWORKS IS MISSING [update, wooden gun is Catalogue # E168615 and is, as of 2009, present in the collections]. INFORMATION FROM ACCESSION PAPER NO. 27835"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 6
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: 027835
label: USNM Number
content: E168614-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fireworks