Gaming token. Pear-shaped token painted red on the reverse. The front of the token is decorated with an expressive human face painted in black with a red body. This token is one of five gaming tokens in a set. [CW [OPS Move] 21/7/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Gaming token. Pear-shaped token painted red on the reverse. The front of the token is decorated with an expressive human face painted in black with a red body. This token is one of five gaming tokens in a set. [CW [OPS Move] 21/7/2016]
Long description: For the complete set of five pear-shaped gaming tokens with faces please see, 1901.47.1 .140 - .144. [CW [OPS Move] 21/7/2016] Please note that this object is one of a set of two-hundred and twenty-three objects that form the box, cards, counters and accessories of a Japanese game. [AB [OPS Move] 21/7/2016]
Geographical reference: Japan
Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan
Cultural groups: Japanese
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Cuthbert Edgar Peek; PRM source Augusta Louisa Peek
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1901
Date collected: By 1901
Acquisition information: Donated: 1901
Materials and processes: Material Animal Bone, Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Process Painted
Dimensions: Depth: max 2 mm, Width: max 21 mm, Length: max 26 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1901.47.1.141
Associated publications: Please note that the following offprint was found in one of the drawers containing card games. It is unclear what, if any, object this was originally associated with, so I have put it in a folder in the RDF in 1917.53 which is the collection that most of the card games were from. King Van Rensselaer, J. "Playing Cards from Japan" Proceedings National Museum XIII, No. 836, p. 381 - 382 [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 11/2/2005]

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