Dried cake of lily root, "turep"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 2005
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Two sets of 2 discs of dried starch, with hole in center. Strip of bark threaded through the holes, attaching the 2 discs together. According to Chisato Dubreuil, this is 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: 4 Feb 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: E430683-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Root
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 8 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 8 cm