Japanese Dividers
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1840
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: From 1985 Anthropology Conservation Lab treatment report: Carved from a very lightweight wood. Five cm. from top of dividers the wood splits and a shorter arm of wood pivots from the main length of wood; it can open up until it is perpendicular to main length. The longer piece of wood has a small pin point of metal projecting from its end. There is a small hole drilled through both pieces of wood at midpoint. There are several black ink-like stains on bottom portion of dividers.
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 104 as "A pair of Japanese dividers pres[ente]d by Dr. Judd."
label: Notes
content: The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Japan. The Japanese artifacts in the collection were acquired in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1840. See the Peale catalogue entries on the artifacts and also pp. 146 - 147 in Viola, Herman J., and Carolyn Margolis. 1985. Magnificent voyagers: the U.S. exploring expedition, 1838-1842. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press: "The objects ... were given to the Expedition in Hawaii by Dr. J.P. [sic, should be G. P. or Gerrit Parmele] Judd, who obtained them from a group of Japanese whose ship, the Choja Maru, had been disabled in the North Pacific. Rescued by Captain [Obed] Cathcart on the American whale ship James Loper, which took them to Hawaii, Maui, and finally to Honolulu, they stayed for nearly three months (in 1840) with Dr. Judd, a missionary from the United States. ... In his diary Dr. Judd noted that on 30 September 1840 the Peacock [one of the Exploring Expedition ships] arrived, and he had "looked up books and Japanese curiosities for the Squadron.""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Oct 2016
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: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3914-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Divider
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 24.5 cm