Carved wooden eating dish. [RM [OPS move] 19/8/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Carved wooden eating dish. [RM [OPS move] 19/8/2016]
Long description: Carved wooden eating dish made by Ainu carvers for the foreign market. Made of light coloured wood with the inside carved in scrolls imitating Japanese designs. It is of square shape with rounded corners, a flat base, and raised rim. [RM [OPS move] 19/8/2016]
Geographical reference: Japan
Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan; Hokkaido
Cultural groups: Ainu アイヌ
Person: Field collector Basil Hall Chamberlain; PRM source Basil Hall Chamberlain
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1892
Date collected: By 1892
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1892
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions: Width: max 244 mm, Height: max 23 mm, Length: max 244 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1892.56.65
Research and responses: Note that objects from Chamberlain’s Ainu collection were exhibited by Tylor at meeting of AI on 10 May 1892 (JAI 22 (1893), p. 174) [Peter Rivière]

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