artefact;
container(?)
- Museum number
- As.8116.a-b
- Description
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Artefact, carving specimen (?), container (?) comprising bamboo cylinder (one end closed by natural knot) fitting into separable wood discoid foot which is stained red and has encircling engraved ornaments.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 6 centimetres (cylinder a)
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Diameter: 11.50 centimetres (discoid foot b)
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Height: 12.40 centimetres (cylinder a)
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Height: 1.20 centimetres (discoid foot b)
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Weight: 92 grammes (cylinder a)
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Weight: 78 grammes (discoid foot b)
- Curator's comments
- From Slip: "[Said by donor to be] merely a specimen of their ability in carving, and not an object of domestic utility".
But see AOA Christy Correspondence - undated, unsigned list of Ainu objects:
'Drinking Cups of bamboo 5 in long, 2 1/4 diam, a knot at the lower end set into a disc of pale wood 4 3/8 diam, the upper part carved.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1995-96, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 6), 'The Ainu of Japan'
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- As.8116.a-b
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: As1873C1.8116 (old CDMS no.)