Carrying frame, shoi-bashigo

Museum number:

9-23098

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Accession number:

Acc.4789

Description:

A wooden backpack frame (shoi-bashigo) used for carrying heavy loads on the back.

Donor:

Dai Williams, Estate of Karin Nelson, and Karin Nelson

Collection place:

Yamagata Prefecture, South Tohoku, Tohoku region

Culture or time period:

Japanese

Collector:

Dai Williams

Collection date:

July 1997

Materials:

Grapevine (wild grapevine bark), Rice straw (cord), and Wood (plant material)

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

1.2 Gathering

Accession date:

March 20, 2012

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)

Dimensions:

whole— height 23.5 inches, whole— width 11.25 inches, and whole— depth 3 inches

Comment:

Two wood posts form the frame and are connected by two smaller wooden posts at the bottom and the top. It is wrapped in budo from the bottom to the top with a wara cord connected at the bottom corner and the top corner. Note reads "Seoidai; Shirabu

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