Knife & Case
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1890
name: label: Donor Name
content: Colegate Baker
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Case carved. The blade of Japanese manufacture; the carved case made by the Ainos. Illus. in USNM AR, 1890, page 457, fig. 76".
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 29.19 p. 217 of Fitzhugh, William W., and Chisato O. Dubreuil. 1999. Ainu: spirit of a northern people. [Washington, D.C.]: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in association with University of Washington Press. Identified there as man's sheath knife (makiri),which was worn hanging from the belt with a thong.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Aug 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Hokkaido (Yezo), Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu, Piratori Ainu
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 021675
label: USNM Number
content: E150729-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife/Knife Sheath
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 29.2 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 17.1 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 2.5 cm