Painted Scroll (No. 1)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1952
name: label: Donor Name
content: Frederick Starr
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Kakemono type of painted paper scroll, with silk backed ends and wooden cylinder at base. Executed by Hada no Aokimaro; subject matter concerned with the legend of their origin and miscellaneous customs of the Ainu. Much handwritten explanatory text translated in part and evaluated by Harold P. Stern of the Freer Gallery of Art. (See accession papers)." A Japanese scroll depicting Ainu people. See 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 "Curious Sights of Ezo Island" painted by Shimanojo Murakami in 1799. Note re photos: Neg. # 2004-60454 is a high resolution digital image (tiff) of one picture from the scroll depicting an Ainu man with bow and sword. Neg. #2004-60455 is a high resolution digital image (tiff) of one picture from the scroll depicting an Ainu woman with weaving shuttle.
label: Notes
content: Detail showing Ainu woman with weaving shuttle illus. (listed as # 392023-25) in Fig. I.22 p. 20 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. Detail showing Ainu man with bow and sword illus. in Fig. 12.1 p. 96 of same publication. Detail showing scene from Ainu mythology, goddess of the cave, illus.(listed as # 392023-25) in Fig. 39.1 p. 274 of same publication.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Aug 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
label: Culture
content: Ainu
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 195288
label: USNM Number
content: E392023-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Scroll