Hand Hoe (Kuwa)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "A CONCAVE EDGED RECTANGULAR IRON BLADE WITH A LOOP AT THE BACK THROUGH WHICH IS INSERTED THE SHORT STRAIGHT THICK WOODEN HANDLE. *THOUGH THIS ITEM WAS ORIGINALLY DITTOED AS A "CHINESE RICE SCYTHE", THIS WAS PROBABLY IN ERROR BECAUSE THE LATER CATALOGING OF THIS SAME CAT. NO. CALLED IN A DIGGER, THE SAME AS CAT. NO. 381."
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 125
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Jun 2016
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: E384-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hoe
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 27 cm