Lacquer Box
name: label: Collector
content: Miss Eliza R. Scidmore
label: Donor Name
content: Miss Eliza R. Scidmore
notes: label: Notes
content: 8 parts: Lacquer box and contents 7 items.
label: Notes
content: Box contents include 2 photographs. One photo is of a Japanese boy, who may possibly be Hirohito, per Maribeth Garnier and Louise Cort, 2011. The other photo is of a woman, and is in a frame marked "1895" and "The Shoreham, John T. Devine" (The Shoreham is a hotel in Washington, D.C., and John T. Devine was its manager at one point). The photographer and subject of the photo are both unidentified on the photo/frame, but the subject appears to possibly be the collector/donor herself, Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, per Maribeth Garnier and Louise Cort, 2011. Scidmore did live at the Shoreham at certain points in her life, per Smithsonian accession records which list that as her address for certain donations.
label: Notes
content: List in loan accession file identifies the box as "Lacquer box for temple papers. With crest of Hongwaiy's [sic, should be Hongwanji] Temple Kyoto."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Apr 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 8
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008373
label: USNM Number
content: E220151-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Box / Photograph / Ticket / Place Card