Hoe (Kuwa)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "RECTANGULAR STRAIGHT ENDED IRON BLADE TAPERING AT THE BACK END INTO THE LOOPED SHANK, THROUGH WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN INSERTED AT RIGHT ANGLES A LONG WOODEN HANDLE. HANDLE FOUND BY INVENTORY 4/10/85. JAN. 1969 LOAN TO JAPAN SOCIETY, N.Y.C."
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 122 and 123, where hoe blade is illustrated and described. Hoe handle was not included in publication.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Apr 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: E376-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hoe
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 24.8 cm
label: Width
content: 12.3 cm