Woven mat without design "toma"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 2005
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Mat made of reeds twined together with cotton string. Mostly undecorated, but strips of red and black cloth are woven into the mat to make stripes at the ends. According to Chisato Dubreuil, this mat was provided as a special seat for the participants of the bear-sending ceremony (iyomante). Made for the 1999 NMNH exhibit "Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People", using the traditional Ainu standing loom (itese-ni).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2026093
label: USNM Number
content: E430746-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mat
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 240 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 91 cm