Cotton Apron
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1840
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIS ITEM IS IMPORTANT FOR THE MATERIAL OF WHICH IT IS MADE. THE GARMENT (APPARENTLY) IS AN APRON MADE FROM LATE TOKUGAWA FABRIC. THE SMALL PATTERN IS "OLD" NARA IN DESIGN. NOTE THAT THE CENTRAL PANEL DIFFERS IN TEXTURE FROM SIDE PANELS, YET DESIGNS ARE SIMILAR. BETH BLAKE: 1965."
label: Notes
content: From 1985 Anthropology Conservation Lab treatment report: Cotton apron made in three panels; the center panel being the longest leads into the portion which covers the upper chest. The top edge of this is bordered with a brown material that has a loop at each edge for attaching tiestrings. At each outer edge of the side panels is a cotton tie string 60 cm. long for the waist. There is an intricate all-over design in blue and white. The material is faded and discolored. The left panel has a horizontal tear in it 3.5 cm. long, which is mended on the reverse side with a different Japanese material. The brown cloth lining of the the top of the apron is disintegrating; only a small segment of it folds over the top and is sewn on the reverse side, the rest has been lost from the reverse side.
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 94 as "Cotton cloth made in Japan" and also notes under # 102 that it "... with the above specimens of their manufactures, obtained from shipwrecked Japanese at the Sandwich Islands [Hawaii], were pres[ente]d to the Ex. Ex. by Dr. Judd, Honolulu, Oahu, 1840
label: Notes
content: The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Japan. The Japanese artifacts in the collection were acquired in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1840. See the Peale catalogue entries on the artifacts and also pp. 146 - 147 in Viola, Herman J., and Carolyn Margolis. 1985. Magnificent voyagers: the U.S. exploring expedition, 1838-1842. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press: "The objects ... were given to the Expedition in Hawaii by Dr. J.P. [sic, should be G. P. or Gerrit Parmele] Judd, who obtained them from a group of Japanese whose ship, the Choja Maru, had been disabled in the North Pacific. Rescued by Captain [Obed] Cathcart on the American whale ship James Loper, which took them to Hawaii, Maui, and finally to Honolulu, they stayed for nearly three months (in 1840) with Dr. Judd, a missionary from the United States. ... In his diary Dr. Judd noted that on 30 September 1840 the Peacock [one of the Exploring Expedition ships] arrived, and he had "looked up books and Japanese curiosities for the Squadron.""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E5796-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Apron
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 87 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 97 cm