Doll (Nin'gyo)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PLUMP SQUATTING FIGURE OF A MAN. MADE OF WHITE PLASTER-LIKE MATERIAL, COVERED WITH THICK WHITE PAINT, FRONT ONCE PAINTED RED AND DECORATED WITH APPLIED PIECES OF FLORAL CLOTH. EYES PAINTED IN BLACK AND TWO ROUND SPOTS OF COARSE CLOTH ON HEAD TO REPRESENT HAIR. OBJECT HELD IN RIGHT HAND NOT CLEAR. 3/1969 WHITE PAINT IS BADLY CHIPPED AWAY."
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 127
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Dec 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: 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: E160-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure