Massage Rollers (Amma-ki)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PARTIAL SECTION OF A BAMBOO CYLINDER, IN WHICH ON A CROSSWISE CYLINDER IS MOUNTED A WIDE BEVELLED-EDGE DISK. OF WOOD. STAINED DARK. THESE WERE ORIGINALLY UNIDENTIFIED, BUT ARE IMPLEMENTS THAT ARE USED IN THE MASSAGE OF THE BODY.* ONE OF THESE REMAINS ONLY AS A BROKEN PART. (4/1969) *THIS INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED THROUGH ROGER PINEAU OF THE EDITORIAL OFFICE FROM MR. YUTAKA TSUJI CORRESPONDENT OF THE ASAHI SHIMBUN. IN JAPAN. JAN. 1969 ONE WAS LOANED 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 96. 3 objects with this number, however one is only a fragment.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Dec 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
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: E277-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Massage Roller
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 5 cm
label: Length
content: 5.1 cm