Writing Brushes (Fude)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIN BAMBOO TUBES INTO THE END OF WHICH ARE INSERTED TUFFS OF BRISTLES, WHICH ARE NORMALLY COVERED WITH A SHORTER PIECE OF SIMILAR TUBE. ONLY ONE OF THESE HAD ITS ORIGINAL NUMBER AND SO COULD BE IDENTIFIED FOR SURE, AND ONLY THREE HAVE THE TUFTS IN, AND THREE HAVE COVERS WITH THEM."
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 97
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Dec 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 7
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 199043
label: USNM Number
content: E314-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Writing Brush
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 20 cm