Dried lily roots, "turep"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 2005
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Wax replica of 2 discs of dried lily root, tied together with bast fiber rope and long wood shavings ("inaw-ur" or "inaw-kike"). According to Chisato Dubreuil, Ainu women made "shito" dumplings for various ceremonies. They made cereal grains into powder, working to the millstone song ("iyutaupopo"), and kneading powder into dough. These "shito" are offerings for the bear "kamuy" for the outside altar ("nusa") at the end of "iyomante" ceremony. Made for the 1999 NMNH exhibit "Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2026093
label: USNM Number
content: E430644-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Root
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Each Disc
content: 16 cm
label: Height - Each Disc
content: 2 cm