Sickle (Kama)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LONG IRON BLADE, CURVED ONLY TOWARD THE POINT, SERRATED ON THE INSIDE OF THE CURVE. INSERTED, THROUGH ON IRON FERRULE, INTO THE SHORT WOODEN HANDLE. 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. Houchins identifies as a hand sickle or hand scythe, used for harvesting rice, an inakari-kama (lit. rice-cutting sickle).
label: Notes
content: This sickle resembles the one illustrated as # 13 in plate opposite p. 38 (see also p. 73) in Morrow, James, and Allan B. Cole. 1947. A Scientist with Perry in Japan : the Journal of Dr. James Morrow. Edited by Allan B. Cole. Chapel Hill: the University of North Carolina Press.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Jan 2021
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: E388-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sickle