Painted Scroll (No. 3)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1952
name: label: Donor Name
content: Frederick Starr
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Executed by Hada no Aokimaro. Subject: seal fishing and bear hunting and associated festivals. Profuse interpolated textual explanatory notes translated in part by Harold P. Stern, Freer Gallery of Art. (see accession papers)."
label: Notes
content: A Japanese scroll depicting Ainu people. See Fitzhugh, William W., and Chisato O. Dubreuil. 1999. Ainu: spirit of a northern people. [Washington, D.C.]: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in association with University of Washington Press. Identified there as "Curious Sights of Ezo Island" painted by Shimanojo Murakami in 1799.
label: Notes
content: Detail showing two Japanese officials being entertained by Ainu people illus. (listed as # 392023-25) in Fig. 6.3 p. 61 of Fitzhugh, William W., and Chisato O. Dubreuil. 1999. Ainu: spirit of a northern people. [Washington, D.C.]: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in association with University of Washington Press. Detail showing Iyomante, the bear-sending ceremony, illus. Fig. 36.1 p. 256 of same publication. Three additional details from same publication showing stages of Iyomante, the bear-sending ceremony, are illus. (listed as incorrect # 395023-25) Fig. 46.9A, B, C on p. 330. Detail A shows preparations around the bear cage (heper-set). Detail B shows strangling the bear. Detail C shows the ceremonial feast and celebration.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Aug 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
label: Culture
content: Ainu
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 195288
label: USNM Number
content: E392025-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Scroll