Lacquered Waiters (Ken'gai; Suzuri-Buta)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: RECATALOGED AS ETHNOLOGY #4161 IN THE 1950'S. LATER CANCELLED. CANCELLED NUMBER, IN BRACKETS, REMAINS ON OBJECT.FROM CARD: "SHALLOW WOODEN TRAY, ESSENTIALLY SQUARE, LACQUERED BLACK OUTSIDE AND RED INSIDE. *ORIGINALLY CALLED "WORKING BOX".? 3/1969 SEAM WHERE EDGE AND BOTTOM COME TOGETHER, COMING UNGLUED. JAN. 1969 LOANED (TWO) TO JAPAN SOCIETY N.Y.C."
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 25. Per Houchins, this object consists of two sets (with identical dimensions) of nested square trays, each set consisting of two trays.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Dec 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
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: E152-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tray
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 24 cm
label: Width
content: 22.5 cm
label: Height
content: 2.5 cm
label: Length
content: 23 cm
label: Height
content: 2.5 cm