Ploughshare (Suki No Saki)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CAST-IRON. BROAD TAPERED POINT, HOLLOW AND EDGED TO FIT OVER THE WOODEN BODY OF THE PLOW. STILL FILLED WITH SAND (FROM THE CASTING) SO PROBABLY NOT USED. JAN. 1969 LOAN TO JAPAN SOCIETY, N.Y.C."
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 123 (incorrectly listed as # 381).
label: Notes
content: Dr. James Morrow describes a Japanese plow with plowshare similar to this on pp. 165 -166 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. " ... here we saw the first Japanese plow. It consisted of two pieces of wood. The foot piece was of hard wood and dished at the end which was shod with a small sharp triangular piece of iron. The hand piece was set at an acute angle with the foot piece and answered for a beam and handle."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: E380-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Plowshare