Smoking Pipe (Kiseru)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
label: Collection Date
content: June, 1853 Or July, 1854
name: label: Collector
content: Commodore Matthew C. Perry
label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: RECATALOGED AS ETHNOLOGY #4034 IN THE 1950'S. LATER CANCELLED. CANCELLED NUMBER, IN BRACKETS, REMAINS ON OBJECT. FROM CARD: "STRAIGHT BAMBOO STEM DECORATED WITH STENCILLED LENGTHWISE CONTIGUOUS ROWS OF SMALL DARK BROWN HEXAGONS. ONTO ONE END IS FITTED A SHORT VERY SMALL BRASS BOWL WHICH IS AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE STEM. MOUTHPIECE IS MISSING." ACCORDING TO HOUCHINS, 1995, THIS PIPE IS ONE OF A GROUP OF PIPES "RECEIVED AT NAHA IN JUNE 1853 AND IN JULY 1854."
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 86 and 87
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Dec 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Naha, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 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: E38-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe