Teeth Blackening Outfit (3 Pieces, A, B, C)
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Hugh M. Smith
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THE STAIN USED IN BLACKENING THE TEETH WAS REALLY AN INK AND IN THE EARLY DAYS THIS WAS MADE IN A VERY PRIMITIVE [SIC] WAY. THEY PUT SOME IRON FILINGS OR IRON SCRAPS IN A VESSEL WITH WATER AND BURIED THE VESSEL FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS AND AT THE END OF THAT TIME OXIDE HAD FORMED AND SETTLED IN THE BOTTOM. THIS RESIDUE WAS TAKEN OUT AND PUT IN A LITTLE VESSEL WITH AN INFUSION OF SOME KIND OF VEGETABLE CONTAINING TANNIN, SO THAT AN INK RESULTED. THIS WAS KEPT ON TAP AND AS REQUIRED WAS PUT IN A LITTLE BRASS KETTLE AND HEATED AND FROM THIS BRASS KETTLE IT WAS POURED OUT INTO ANOTHER VESSEL AND APPLIED WITH A TOOTHBRUSH. THESE WERE USED ABOUT 50 YEARS AGO BY THE JAPANESE MATRONS. MADE OF BEATEN BRASS. ALL THE TEETH ARE BLACKENED AND THE PROCESS IS RENEWED ABOUT EVERY TWO WEEKS."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Yokohama, Honshu, 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: 009508
label: USNM Number
content: EL914A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tooth-Blackening Set
physicalDescription: label: Height - Vessel
content: 5.397 cm
label: Depth - Vessel
content: 7.302 cm
label: Length - Toothbrush
content: 20.95 cm
label: Height - Kettle
content: 5.397 cm
label: Depth - Kettle
content: 6.667 cm