Covered Pottery Jar, For Tea (?) (Chaki?; Choka?)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SAME AS CAT., NO. 134: DARK BROWN GLAZED COVERED CYLINDRICAL POTTERY BOX. SETO AREA - VICTOR HAUGE".
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 58. Houchins lists this as missing its cover, however in 2016 a cover is present (broken in 2 pieces).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
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: E174-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Jar