Smoking Pipe (Kiseru)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
label: Collection Date
content: June, 1853 Or July, 1854
name: label: Collector
content: Commodore Matthew C. Perry
label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "STRAIGHT HOLLOW BAMBOO STEM WITH SHORT BRASS MOUTHPIECE FITTED OVER ONE END AND A SHORT BRASS BOWL FITTED OVER THE OTHER END, AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE STEM. BOTH BRASS PIECES ARE RINGED WITH SHALLOW GROOVES. JAN. 1969 LOANED TO JAPAN SOCIETY N.Y.C." ACCORDING TO HOUCHINS, 1995, P. 86, THIS PIPE IS ONE OF A GROUP OF PIPES "RECEIVED AT NAHA IN JUNE 1853 AND IN JULY 1854."
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 86 and 87
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Dec 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Naha, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 199043
label: USNM Number
content: E39-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe