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Pitt Rivers Museum

1976.10.5

Amulet: Red silk packet with gold thread decoration.

On display


1976.10.5

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Collection type
Object
Description
Amulet: Red silk packet with gold thread decoration.
Geographical reference
Tohoku
Person
Field collector Yuriko Shibata
PRM source Yuriko Shibata
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1976
Date collected
By 1976
Acquisition information
Donated: 1976
Materials and processes
Material Silk Textile Animal, Material Yarn, Process Decorated, Process Woven
Dimensions
Width 30 mm, Length 50 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1976.10.5
Associated publications
Illustrated in colour on page 19 of Particularly Ravishing Morsels: Recipes from Around the World Inspired by the Collections, by The Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum (no place [Oxford], no publisher [Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum], no date [2007]). It is used to illustrate a recipe for 'Chawanmushi' by Joy Hendry and is captioned 'Museum case display of Japanese amulets obtained at Shinto shrines. Donated in 1976 by Mrs. Yuriko Shibata' [El.B 06/05/2008]

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