Lance With Scabbard (Yari To Hadome)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LONG PLAIN NATURAL LIGHT BROWN WOOD SHAFT, INTO WHICH IS INSERTED A 26.3 CM L. HEAVY TRIANGULAR SECTIONED STEEL BLADE (POINT), WITH AN APPARENTLY SILVER COATED COPPER FERRULE. AND BELOW THIS FOR 42.5 CM. IS WRAPPED WITH CORD WHICH HAS BEEN LACQUERED OVER IN DULL RED, AND BELOW WHICH IS ANOTHER "SILVER" COATED BAND AND A BAND OF GILDING OVER MORE CORD. BACK END HAS A BLUNT IRON TIP* AND A BRASS FERRULE. *WHICH HAS A HOLE THROUGH IT. SHEATH IS FOR THE BLADE ONLY, OF WOOD COVERED ON THE OUTSIDE WITH A BARK-LIKE BLACK LACQUER. L.32 CM." White certificate is in Japanese swords and fittings Notebook 1 in Anthropology Records Room.
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 and 115.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Mar 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
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: E208-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lance / Sheath
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 32 cm
label: Length
content: 283 cm
label: Length - Steel Head
content: 26.3 cm