Hemp-Palm Fiber (Shuro-Ge)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "A TRIANGULAR PIECE OF THE INNER BARK SHREDDED AT ONE END. BROWN COLOR AS IT COMES NATURALLY. APPARENTLY JUST A SAMPLE, OF KIND OF MATERIAL USED FOR DIFFERENT THINGS: RAINCOATS BAGS, ETC. *BECAUSE THIS ORIGINAL NUMBER APPEARED TO BE BLANK IT WAS ASSIGNED TO THIS SPECIMEN, WHICH APPARENTLY HAD ONLY BEEN NUMBERED IN THE SECOND NUMBERING. 4/1969."
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 106
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: 199043
label: USNM Number
content: E317-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fiber
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 51 cm
label: Width
content: 19 cm