Loom, "itese-ni", and partial mat, "onikapunpe"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 2005
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: According to Chisato Dubreuil, this loom is used to weave common and ceremonial floor and wall mats, as well as to construct the twined basket "saranip". Part 1: Partially-woven mat. Dried cattails twined together with light purple cotton string. Strips of red and black cloth are woven in as supplementary wefts to make concentric diamond pattern. At unfinished edge, each warp end is wrapped around a small stone. Part 2: Wide, flat stick with notches carved in it. Part 3-4: V-shaped sticks with notch in the base (loom frame?) Part 5-6: wooden wedges (part of loom frame?). Made for the 1999 NMNH exhibit "Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People" using traditional Ainu materials and techniques.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2026093
label: USNM Number
content: E430743-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Loom/Mat
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 95 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 26 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 47.5 cm