Sword Blade
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: Green certificate is in Japanese swords and fittings Notebook 2 in Anthropology Records Room.
label: Notes
content: Catalog card for 359954 only lists the Japanese sword blade, but 3 parts were found with 359954 written on them: a complete (assembled) sword and sheath set, and the separate unmounted sword blade. The unmounted blade is definitely Japanese, and so has been designated E359954-0. The mounted sword and sheath set is Chinese, and so to distinguish it from the Japanese blade, has been designated E359954-1. At one time there was also a Japanese sword mount (saya and tsuka) also numbered 359954, but because they did not fit the Japanese blade E359954-0, they were given # ET374B. The card for ET374B makes note of the Chinese sword set now called E359954-1, whereas the card for 359954 does not list it. Sword mounts ET374B appear to possibly belong with the unmounted sword blade called E359957 # 2 of 2?
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Aug 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E359954-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sword Blade