Japanese Pipe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1840
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: From 1985 Anthropology Conservation Lab treatment report: Main stem of pipe is cut from a length of bamboo. The mouthpiece and pipe head are made of metal (possibly brass?). The major portion of these pieces are finely grooved in a circular pattern. The tip of the mouthpiece is smooth and tapers. Bowl is smooth and small. The bowl piece freely comes off the stem.
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 107 as "Opium pipe used by the Japanese, pres[ente]d by Dr. Judd." Though identified as an opium pipe in the Peale catalogue, this pipe appears instead to be a common smoking pipe for tobacco (kiseru). Compare to Perry collection pipes Catalogue Nos. E35 to E43.
label: Notes
content: The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Japan. The Japanese artifacts in the collection were acquired in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1840. See the Peale catalogue entries on the artifacts and also pp. 146 - 147 in Viola, Herman J., and Carolyn Margolis. 1985. Magnificent voyagers: the U.S. exploring expedition, 1838-1842. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press: "The objects ... were given to the Expedition in Hawaii by Dr. J.P. [sic, should be G. P. or Gerrit Parmele] Judd, who obtained them from a group of Japanese whose ship, the Choja Maru, had been disabled in the North Pacific. Rescued by Captain [Obed] Cathcart on the American whale ship James Loper, which took them to Hawaii, Maui, and finally to Honolulu, they stayed for nearly three months (in 1840) with Dr. Judd, a missionary from the United States. ... In his diary Dr. Judd noted that on 30 September 1840 the Peacock [one of the Exploring Expedition ships] arrived, and he had "looked up books and Japanese curiosities for the Squadron.""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Oct 2016
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: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3927-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 26 cm