Rice Sickle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CALLED CHINESE TYPE. A "V" SHAPED NATURAL WOOD STICK, THROUGH ONE END OF WHICH, IS INSERTED A SHORT SERRATED, CURVED NARROW IRON BLADE. JAN. 1969 LOANED TO JAPAN SOCIETY N.Y.C."
label: Notes
content: This sickle was not included in the Houchins publication on the Perry collection, Chang-Su Houchins. 1995. Artifacts of Diplomacy: Smithsonian Collections from Commodore Matthew Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854). Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, Number 37. On p. 72 of Morrow, James, and Allan B. Cole. 1947. A Scientist with Perry in Japan : the Journal of Dr. James Morrow. Edited by Allan B. Cole. Chapel Hill: the University of North Carolina Press, Morrow describes a sickle he saw in China used to harvest rice, and notes that he purchased one in a small village near Canton (Guangzhou) in 1853; see also p. 221. The description seems to resemble sickle E382. "It consisted of a wooden prong and handle armed with a small, slightly curved knife, the handle and prong being simply a forked branch of a tree, cut and seasoned." He also talks more about sickles on p. 73.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Dec 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Japan (not certain) / China (not certain), 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: E382-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sickle