Man's Coat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1880
name: label: Donor Name
content: Sapporo Agricultural College
notes: label: Notes
content: Note: on p. 440 of "The Ainos of Yezo, Japan," by Romyn Hitchcock, U.S. National Museum Annual Report for 1890, HItchcock indicates that the Tsuishikari Ainu had come from Sakhalin Island in 1875 and settled in the Ishikari River valley of Hokkaido, Japan, not too far from Sapporo. He says: "I was unable to visit them, but through the courtesy of Mr. H. Sato, of the Sapporo Agricultural College, I was able to secure a valuable collection of articles from them ..."
label: Notes
content: From card: "Elm bark cloth." From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Man's Coat. - Made of ohiyo, or elm-bark cloth. Embroidered with cotton yarn on a blue-black cotton ground."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 42.3 p. 289 of Fitzhugh, William W., and Chisato O. Dubreuil. 1999. Ainu: spirit of a northern people. [Washington, D.C.]: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in association with University of Washington Press. Identified there as a man's attush robe. Attush is cloth woven on a backstrap loom made from the inner bark of the elm tree and from linden and nettle plants. "Men were responsible for procuring the bark, but weaving, sewing, and decorating clothing were women's tasks. Designs were embroidered on old cotton clothing or fabric scraps obtained from the Japanese and then sewn onto the attush. Although many anthropologists have been reluctant to believe it, Ainu insist that the designs have no meaning and are done only to please the gods."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Aug 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hokkaido (Yezo), Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu, Tsuishikari Ainu
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 022633
label: USNM Number
content: E150779-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Robe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 122 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 127 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 1.2 cm