Netsuke
- Museum number:
- 9-7516
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090007516
- Alternate number:
- 4-21 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2384
- Description:
- Netsuke: man squatting with hands clasped behind him. Mask has protruding mouth. Wears ivory mask.
- Donor:
- Estate of Geraldine C. and Kernan Robson
- Collection place:
- Japan
- Culture or time period:
- Japanese
- Collector:
- Geraldine C. Robson
- Collection date:
- before 1940
- Materials:
- Ivory (material) and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Masks (costume)
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- 1968
- Context of use:
- Toggle to be attached to the end of a cord and thrust through the sash of a kimono for the support of a purse, pouch or lacquer box.
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- height 4 centimeters, width 3.5 centimeters, and length 2.5 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1968-1969 #4: University of California, Berkeley (July 2, 1968–May 3, 1973) and S2015-2016 #3: Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley) (May 5, 2016–August 2, 2016)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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