Belt (Obi)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
label: Collection Date
content: 1854
name: label: Collector
content: Commodore Matthew C. Perry
label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: RECATALOGED AS ETHNOLOGY# 004030 IN THE 1950'S. LATER CANCELLED. CANCELLED NUMBER, IN BRACKETS, REMAINS ON OBJECT. FROM CARD: "SILK, MEDIUM BLUE. APPARENTLY, ACCORDING TO NAVAL HISTORY THIS MUST BE JUST AN INFORMAL PIECE OF CLOTH, THAT WAS USED AS A BELT. FROM C.S. HOUCHINS, 5/10/84:BLUE HAKATA-ORI, WARP-FACED PLAIN WEAVE SILK WITH WARP FLOATS IN WHITE GEOMETRIC PATTERN. MAN'S BELT TO BE WORN FOLDED DOUBLE OVER AN OUTER ROBE. THE HAKATA (PT. OF FUKUOKA, KYUSHU) WEAVE IS ALSO CALLED HAKATA KARA ORI, BECAUSE OF ITS CHINESE ORIGIN. "MAY 19, 1965: LOANED FOR EXHIBIT TO NAVAL HISTORY. INVENTORIED 1968. RETURNED FROM LOAN, 11/17/89. **ALSO PER C.S. HOUCHINS(MUS. SPEC. IN THIS DEPT.) 1984 ON LOCATION OF MANUFACTURE: HAKATA, PART OF FUKUOKA, ON THE ISLAND OF KYUSHU. THE ITEM WAS GIVEN TO PERRY IN RYUKYU, BUT THE BELT IS A JAPANESE PRODUCT." ACCORDING TO HOUCHINS, 1995, P. 49, "THE BELT PROBABLY WAS RECEIVED AT NAHA, RYUKYUS, AS AN INFORMAL GIFT, BUT IT WAS NOT INCLUDED IN ANY OF OFFICIAL LISTS OF GIFTS."
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 48 and 49
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Dec 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Naha, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 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: 199043
label: USNM Number
content: E27-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Belt
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 18.732 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 371 cm
label: Width
content: 18.7 cm
label: Length
content: 557.3 cm