Box

Museum number:
9-124
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.143
Description:
6 bone or ivory cylindrical boxes, with covers inlaid with gold discs. For incense ceremony (?). Were in drawer of No. 9-123.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
China
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Bone (material), Gold (metal), and Ivory (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Boxes (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household and 5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 9-124, described as 6 bone or ivory cylindrical boxes, with covers inlaid with gold discs. For incense ceremony (?). Were in drawer of No. 9-123.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 9-124, described as 6 bone or ivory cylindrical boxes, with covers inlaid with gold discs. For incense ceremony (?). Were in drawer of No. 9-123.

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