Spoons 8
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1890
name: label: Donor Name
content: Romyn Hitchcock
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Wood. Illus. in USNM AR, 1890; fig. 75; p. 456. From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Wooden Spoons. - Various shapes and sizes, with long handles often curiously shaped to represent small branches sharply bent at the joints. Used for cooking and for eating. Collected by Romyn Hitchcock."
label: Notes
content: One spoon illus. Fig. 47.2 p. 336 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. Identified as produced for the Japanese market, so the zigzag spoon handle is carved to simulate jointed bamboo, and the spoon bowl is carved to simulate a seashell.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Aug 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 8
place: label: Place
content: Iturup Island (Yeterof, Etorofu), Kuril Islands, Japan / Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu, Yeterof (Iturup/Etorofu) Ainu
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 022393
label: USNM Number
content: E150722-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spoon