Sword And Scabbard
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 May 1941
name: label: Donor Name
content: Miss Mary E. Maxwell
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Green shagreen scabbard; ornamented brass ferrules.Cleaned, see Restoration record 12-17-63."
label: Notes
content: Per Charles Heesh, Japanese sword appraiser and collector, 2012, the shagreen is probably ray skin.
label: Notes
content: Appraisal list in accession file and Anthropology Catalogue ledger book call this China. The location on the catalogue card was changed from China to Korea by an unknown person. Per Leonid Lantsman, Korean Art Society, 2012, this is not Korean, but rather is a mid-19th century Chinese officer's sword.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Aug 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 160028
label: USNM Number
content: E381895-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sword / Sheath