haniwa;
storage box
- Museum number
- 2003,0319.5
- Description
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Terracotta. Haniwa of a head of a shrine maiden. With paulownia storage box.
- Production date
- 3rdC-7thC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 24 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- 埴輪 女頭
Young woman
This is the head from what was originally a complete figure. The young woman's hair is tied in loops, her face is partly painted red and she wears a bead necklace. This suggests that she may be a performer of ritual dance or a shaman. The haniwa is said to come from Naka-cho, Higashi Ibaraki-gun, Ibaraki prefecture.
Earthenware, about AD 500s
(Label copy, 2017)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2006 Oct 13-, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
- Acquisition date
- 2003
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2003,0319.5