Cutting Iron For Carpenter's Plane (Kanna No Ha)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "A STEEL FORM SUPERFICIALLY LIKE A KNIFE BLADE, BUT NOT SHARPENED, AND SHOWING NO EVIDENCE OF HAVING BEEN IN A HANDLE., BACK END HAS A JAPANESE MARK SCRATCHED IN. USED FOR SHARPENING TOOLS. *THE ITEM WHICH SHOWED UP IN THE COLLECTION BEARING ONLY THIS NUMBER, APPEARS QUITE DEFINITELY TO BE A HONE AS ORIGINALLY CATALOGED UNDER NO. 372 & 3 AND THEREFORE MUST HAVE BEEN RECATALOGED TWICE."
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 119
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: E372-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Plane
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 11 cm
label: Width
content: 1.8 cm
label: Height
content: 0.8 cm