Bamboo Bottle (Take-Sasae)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CYLINDRICAL SECTION OF BAMBOO, WITH SEPTUM (WHICH IS WORM EATEN) CLOSING ONE END AND THE OTHER CLOSED WITH WOODEN DISK THROUGH WHICH IS A SMALL BAMBOO TUBE AND STOPPER. ON THE SIDE IS ALSO ANOTHER SMALL HOLE. (THESE WERE ONCE INCORRECTLY CALLED "BOXES WITH LIDS.) *APPARENTLY THIS WAS INCORRECTLY NUMBERED A SECOND TIME WITH: 9154. IN 1903 WAS TURNED OVER TO SECT. OF AMER. HISTORY, BUT LATER WAS RETURNED."
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 95
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 199043
label: USNM Number
content: E164-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canteen