Painted Scroll (No. 2)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1952
name: label: Donor Name
content: Frederick Starr
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Executed by Hada no Aokimaro. Subject matter: the Ainu and their customs, a) house; b) bear cage: c) room interior with utensils; d) bow, arrow, and quiver; e) animal trap; f) exchange of presents ceremony; g) drinking; h) wedding dance; i) ceremony; j) ceremony of ukari; k) ceremony of departure, etc; l) playing a 5 stringed musical instrument; m) fiber plant; N) 5 stringed instrument called ka; o) ordeal. Profuse textual matter interpolated with pictures. Translated in part by Harold P. Stern, Freer Gallery of Art. (See accession papers)."
label: Notes
content: 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.
label: Notes
content: Detail showing greeting ritual, simple greeting ritual when people meet, illus. (listed as incorrect # 392023-25) in Fig. 33.3 (scene reversed in printing) p. 241 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 corporal punishment illus. in Fig. 33.6 p. 243 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: E392024-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Scroll