Sickle (Kama)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SLIGHTLY CURVED IRON BLADE SHARPENED ON THE INSIDE OF THE CURVE. TAPERING TO A THIN POINT. FLAT BACK END IS INSERTED, THROUGH AN IRON FERRULE, INTO A SPLIT IN THE LONG ROUND STRAIGHT WOODEN HANDLE. REFER: VERY SIMILAR TO CHINESE TYPE, SEE: R. HOMMEL: "CHINA AT WORK", P. 68. JAN. 1969 LOAN TO JAPAN SOCIETY N.Y.C."
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 126
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Dec 2018
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: 199043
label: USNM Number
content: E386-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sickle