Covered Lacquerware Bowls (Shiruwan)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: RECATALOGED AS ETHNOLOGY #4049 IN 1867. RECATALOGING CANCELLED IN 1969. CANCELLED NUMBER, IN BRACKETS, REMAINS ON OBJECT.FROM CARD: "QUITE THIN WOODEN BOWL WITH A FOOT RING, LACQUERED BLACK ALL OVER. 2/1969 ? WHETHER EVER HAD A COVER,-YES COVER PRESENT. JAN. 30, 1969 LOANED FOR EXHIBIT AT UNION CARBIDE CORP, N.Y. BY THE JAPAN SOCIETY."
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 18 and 19. Houchins notes in book and on a note with artifact that cover numbered 17 actually belongs with bowl # 15, being too small to properly fit # 17. Number on cover changed to 15 in 2005 by Winifred Weislogel. (One bowl only without cover remains as # 17.) Houchins notes that an additional slightly larger bowl without cover is also numbered 15. She feels, per a note stored with this bowl, that this is misnumbered and that it may in fact be # 18, which was not located during the inventory.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Dec 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
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: E15-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 5.5 cm
label: Depth
content: 10 cm