Doll (Nin'gyo)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PLUMP SQUATTING FIGURE OF A MAN. MADE OF WHITE PLASTER-LIKE MATERIAL, COVERED WITH THICK WHITE PAINT, WITH RED DOWN THE FRONT, THAT ALSO HAS DECORATION OF APPLIED CLOTH WITH FLORAL PATTERNS. AND TWO ROUND SPOTS OF BLACK CLOTH ON HEAD TO REPRESENT HAIR. HOLD IN LEFT ARM A GOURD WATER BOTTLE. 3/1969 WHITE PAINT BADLY CHIPPED OFF."
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 127
label: Notes
content: Gosho ningyo (palace doll), figure of a boy. Illus. Fig. 1 and discussed in Marguerite V. Hodge, "Enigmatic Bodies: Dolls and the Making of Japanese Modernity," Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 12, no. 1 (Spring 2013), http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/spring13/hodge-enigmatic-bodies (accessed June 7, 2020).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jun 2020
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: E161-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 9.5 cm
label: Width
content: 8 cm