Iron Cooking Pot (Kama)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MODIFIED GLOBULAR SHAPE, SLOPING SHARPLEY IN TOWARD THE MOUTH, WITH A WIDE FLANGE AROUND THE MIDDLE WHICH SUSPENDS IT IN BASE OVER WHICH IT IS HEATED. A RING HANDLE ON EACH SIDE. 1969 LOAN TO JAPAN SOCIETY EXHIBIT, N.Y.C."
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 107. Identified there as a cast iron, globular cooking pot.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: 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: E281-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pot
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 20.3 cm
label: Depth
content: 31 cm