Umbrella (Kasa)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD [for numbers 389 through 445]: "HEAVILY OILED THICK PAPER COVERS THAT FOLD UP IN THE REGULAR WAY, MOUNTED ON WOODEN STICKS SLIDES. **4/1969 45 ITEMS WERE ON HAND. //BAMBOO HANDLES. *WHEN RECATALOGED ONLY 10 WERE INCLUDED. SOMETIME IN THE 1940S DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, TWO OF THESE SPECIMENS WERE BORROWED BY HARRY ITZIKOFF OF THE WAR PRODUCTION BOARD, CONSUMERS DURABLE GOODS BRANCH, AND THEY WERE NEVER RETURNED, AND WHEN INQUIRY WAS MADE IN 1952 HE COULD NOT BE LOCATED, EXCEPT THROUGH FEDERAL RECORDS OFFICE, ST. LOUIS AND THIS WAS NOT DONE. JAN. 1969, TEN LOANED TO JAPAN SOCIETY N.Y.C. DURING WHICH 390, 1, 5, 9 HAD PAPER SOMEWHAT SPLIT AND 389, 394, 7, 405 BADLY SPLIT. MAY 1969 WHEN INVENTORIED THE FOLLOWING TEN NUMBERS WERE MISSING: 398, 431-4, 440-5. LOANED TO THE NAVAL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION 3/11/75. (CAT. NO. 396). LOAN RETURNED FROM THE NAVAL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION 4/7/77. ON LOAN TO PACIFIC HERITAGE MUSEUM 5/28/87. (#425)."
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 84 and 85. Houchins identifies as a man's common rain umbrella, amagasa.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Sep 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, 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: E389-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Umbrella