Suit Of Armor For Mannequin
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1893
name: label: Donor Name
content: Tetsuka Shimamura & Company
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "15 pieces, includes underclothing, pair of sandals and pennant case. Cuirass has dark brown lacquered plates and dark blue tapes. Helmet has a gold disc crest. 3/13/70 Description: Kabuto - 62 plate, high backed Mempo - absent Sode - kosode Do - Yoko-hagi-do, w/ sashimoto fitting Haidate - kusari Kote - Namban gusari Suneate - shino (Display Condition) Used in NMNH Japanese Samurai Temporary Exhibit April - July 1971. [See photos of the exhibit showing this armor on a mannequin - negative #s MNH2518A, MNH2518B, MNH2518H, MNH2518I, MNH2518J.] Loaned to Navy Mem. Museum 11/23/77; returned 4/24/78." Suit of armor, clothing and accessories from an exhibit mannequin depicting a male Samurai. See Neg. # MNH411C (circa 1960) for photo of mannequin with armor on. Photo Neg. # MNH411 is image of this mannequin among a group of 6 mannequins depicting Samurai. It appears that the mannequin group is what was catalogued as E168800, part of Accession No. 27832. Group was originally exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. Number for mannequin who wore this armor is E168800-0.
label: Notes
content: This mannequin group can be seen on display in 1904 at the Smithsonian U.S. National Museum in a photo in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives: Photo ID 16855 or NHB-16855, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 42, Folder: 13, https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_9707 .
label: Notes
content: Per Dr. Robert Pontsioen, 2021, mannequin group E168800 was on display on an upper level at the Japanese Bazaar on the Midway Plaisance at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and is visible in some photos of the Japanese Bazaar. For some information on the Japanese Bazaar, see https://web.archive.org/web/20210427134045/https://worldsfairchicago1893.com/2019/11/20/echoes-of-the-white-city-3/ .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 15
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027832
label: USNM Number
content: ET608-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Armor