Family Shinto Altar (Kamidana)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIS IS THE SECOND CLASS OF SUCH SHRINES. RECTANGULAR FLAT TOPPED SIMPLE WOODEN BOX WITH THREE OPENINGS IN FRONT: GRILLS ON THE SIDE ONES, AND THE CENTER ONE WITH DOORS WHICH OPEN TO SHOW THE CARVED WOODEN FIGURE OF DAIKOKU, THE GOD OF WEALTH. 4/1969 ONE OF THE SIDE PANELS ON THIS CENTER SECTION IS MISSING."
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 100
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: E302-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Altar
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 58.4 cm
label: Width
content: 20.3 cm
label: Height
content: 37.5 cm