Covered Pottery Jar, For Tea (?) (Chaki?)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "DARK BROWN GLAZED CYLINDRICAL COVERED POTTERY BOX. SAME AS CAT. NO. 171." ACCORDING TO HOUCHINS, 1995, P. 58, "THIS JAR PROBABLY WAS PART OF THE OFFICIAL RYUKYUAN GIFTS RECEIVED AT NAHA IN JULY, 1854".
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 58
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Naha, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ryukyuan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 199043
label: USNM Number
content: E172-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Jar
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 10.5 cm
label: Depth
content: 12 cm