Polearm With Sheathed Blade (Naginata To Naginatabukuro)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SLIGHTLY OVAL CROSS-SECTIONED LONG WOOD SHAFT INTO WHICH IS INSERTED A 53.5 CM. L. SLIGHTLY BACK-CURVED STEEL SWORD BLADE. FOR 48 CM. BELOW THE BLADE THE SHAFT INLAID WITH FINE PIECES OF MOTHER OF PEARL SHELL AND OVER THIS ARE ATTACHED 5 BANDS OF WHAT APPEAR TO BE SILVER BUT MAY BE SILVER COATED COPPER OR BRASS. AT BASE OF THIS IS A SHORT WRAPPING OF CORD WHICH IS GILDED OVER. BACK END IS SHOD WITH A SHORT IRON HALF-MOON SHAPE. SHEATH. CURVED TO FIT THE BLADE, TWO PART WOOD COVERED WITH PEBBLED BLACK LACQUER. L.59.3 CM (COMING APART)."
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 114
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jun 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: 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: E207-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Polearm / Sheath
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 59.3 cm
label: Length
content: 255 cm
label: Length - Blade:
content: 53.5 cm