Lacquered Box (Kobako; Tebako)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: REPLACEMENT CARD: INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST,1983FROM CARD: "SQUARE BLACK LACQUERED WOODEN BOX, WITH COVER. LACQUER INLAYED WITH MOTHER OF PEARL DESIGN OF FLOWERING TREE. PINK AND PURPLISH LUSTER. 2/1970 SOME CHIPPING OF LACQUER AND UNGLUEING OF THE JOINTS. JAN. 1969 LOANED TO JAPAN SOCIETY N.Y.C. LOANED TO THE NAVAL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION 3/11/75. LOAN RETURNED FROM NAVAL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION 4/7/77."
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 28 and 29
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Dec 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 199043
label: USNM Number
content: E155-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Box
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 14 cm
label: Width
content: 14 cm
label: Height
content: 8.7 cm