Basket (Kago)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "OPENWORK BASKETRY TRAY WITH A HIGH LOOPED HANDLE MADE OF SMALL STEMS OF BAMBOO. OVAL SHAPED, SHALLOW. **IT APPEARS AS THOUGH THIS ORIGINAL NUMBER HAD TWO SPECIMENS OF SIMILAR CONSTRUCTION. AND THAT THIS AND OTHER BASKETS WERE RENUMBERED THREE TIMES BY MISTAKE: 276; 4145; 4325."
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 98 and 99. This is the main basket described and illustrated by Houchins. Houchins also refers to a second basket, which is E117-1.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: E117-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object, Without Handle
content: 4.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 4.5 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 30 cm