Spoon (Saji)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CUT FROM A "PYMLA" SHELL BY CUTTING DOWN THE CENTER OF THE LENGTH. SHELL IS A LONG CONICAL FORM; LARGE PART OF THE SHELL IS BOWL OF THE SPOON. INVENTORIED 1968. LOANED TO THE NAVAL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION 3/11/75. LOAN RETURNED FROM NAVAL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION 4/7/77."
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 130
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: E167-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spoon
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 12 cm
label: Width
content: 5.5 cm