Drying rack, "tuna"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 2005
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Set of 15 wood sticks, some with tiny brass rods inserted perpendicular to it near the end. According to Chisato Dubreuil, rack would be suspended over household hearth to dry and smoke fish. Made using traditional Ainu techniques and materials for the 1999 NMNH exhibit "Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 15
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2026093
label: USNM Number
content: E430601-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drying Rack
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Length - Largest Beam
content: ca 275 cm
label: Minimum Length - Shortest Beam
content: ca 87 cm