Shovel (Shaberu)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THE HOLLOW HANDLE SHANK IS STILL FILLED. CAST-IRON. WITH SAND, AS IF HAD NOT BEEN PREPARED FOR INSERTION OF THE HANDLE AFTER IT WAS CAST. JAN. 1969 LOAN 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 125. Object consists of a shovel blade only; handle not present or missing.
label: Notes
content: See p. 139 in Morrow, James, and Allan B. Cole. 1947. A Scientist with Perry in Japan : the Journal of Dr. James Morrow. Edited by Allan B. Cole. Chapel Hill: the University of North Carolina Press. Morrow discusses Japanese tools, including shovels and spades. "They have ... a very good spade of wood, shod with iron like their heavy digging hoe, - and an indifferent shovel."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: E288-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shovel
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 23.5 cm
label: Width
content: 15.5 cm