inau
- Museum number
- As1910,1119.69-71
- Description
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Three sticks (with tassels), inau made of wood, shavings.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2.20 centimetres (stick 69)
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Diameter: 3.60 centimetres (stick 70)
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Diameter: 2.90 centimetres (stick 71)
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Length: 72 centimetres (stick 69)
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Length: 64.10 centimetres (stick 70)
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Length: 66.10 centimetres (stick 71)
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Weight: 85 grammes (stick 69)
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Weight: 71 grammes (stick 70)
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Weight: 103 grammes (stick 71)
- Curator's comments
- Photograph on this record shows four inau.
These are, from left to right:
As1910,1119.69; 70; 71; 72
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Used at: Japan-British Exhibition (1910)
- Acquisition date
- 1910
- Acquisition notes
- This collection was bought from the RAI, but they acquired it from the 1910 joint Japanese-British exhibition held at White City.
This exhibition included an Ainu village with five men, four women and a child from the Ainu village of Nibutani. The Ainu left 234 objects behind - other items now in Horniman, Liverpool, Pitt-Rivers and Cambridge - ref. Kreiner, Joseph 1999 The European Image of the Ainu as Reflected in Museum Collections. In Fitzhugh William and Dubreuil, Chisato (eds) Ainu Spirit of a Northern People pp 125 - 131.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- As1910,1119.69-71
