Kaba no ki, (Betula grossa) Japanese cherry birch bark and bast, used in the manufacture of rural Japanese basketry.
Donor:
Dai Williams, Estate of Karin Nelson, and Karin Nelson
Collection place:
Nagano Prefecture, Koshin'etsu region, Chubu region
Verbatim coll. place:
Kami-mura, Nagano-ken
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Collector:
Dai Williams
Collection date:
June 14, 1997
Materials:
Bark (plant material) (japanese cherry birch) and Plant fiber
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
March 20, 2012
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
c) whole— width 0.75 inches, c) whole— depth 0.25 inches, a) whole— length 3.25 inches, b) whole— length 3 inches, c) whole— length 1.75 inches, a) whole— depth 1.5 inches, b) whole— width 0.75 inches, b) whole— depth 0.25 inches, and a) whole— width 1.75 inches