A book edited and published by the Japanese Ministry of Education, with handwritten interlineal transcription into romanized Japanese and translations into English.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 7352
USNM Catalog 366955
USNM Accession 124621
Variant Title:
Elementary calligraphy copy book
Related Materials:
A related volume of Japanese calligraphy from the McGlannan collection is held by the Cullman Library.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
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Rights:
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Genre/Form:
Works of art
Children's books
Citation:
MS 7352 Shōgaku Shūji Tehon (Textbook of Calligraphy for Elementary School Students), National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The collection consists of one (1) book by Alfred Koehn. The book is made up of cutouts, mostly from red paper, that have been mounted on the pages of the volume. The cutouts represent people, animals, birds, flowers, and other designs. These designs were mounted in homes to bring prosperity and good fortune for the coming year.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Biographical Note:
Alfred Koehn was a German diplomat and amateur botanist who worked in Asia. He authored and published a number of illustrated books on Japan and China.
A set of ten (10) watercolor paintings on pith paper.
The following are descriptions of the pictures that are copied from an accompanying sheet:
(1) harvesting rice--the cycles in the farmers' hands are made of iron and palm wood
(2) carrying sheaves of rice to be thrashed
(3) threshing rice--the flail used is made of palm wood and bamboo
(4) sweeping the rice grain together in order to have it sifted
(5) sifting the rice--the woman represented uses a wooden dipper in
order to put a small amount of rice in a hulling mill at a time
(6) bolting the rice flour
(7) showing samples to customer
(8) selling rice shoots to commission merchant
(9) a rice merchant and his attendant
(10) carrying rice to be weighed
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Historical Note:
Chinese export watercolors were painted in the port cities of China for sale to western customers in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Many of the watercolors were done in sets such as trades, domestic interiors and gardens, boats, birds, mandarins, and punishments.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV 10000081
Variant title:
Illustrations of the rice industry
Provenance:
Received by the United States National Museum from Foster Jennings through exchange, August 20, 1893. Transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives by Chang-su Houchins, August 1986.
United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) Search this
Extent:
98 Pages
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Articles
Vocabulary
Place:
Africa -- Linguistics
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
This manuscript probably represents what Horatio Hale originally intended to publish on southern Africa in his Philology and Ethnology that is one of the volumes of the report of the United States Exploring Expedition (Wilkes Expedition). It includes several vocabularies, comparative vocabularies, and notes on the location and appearance (especially the cicatrization and other body decoration) of African tribes.
Local Numbers:
NAA ACC 76-120 (part)
SI LIB MS 68 (part)
NAA MS 7235
Local Note:
The manuscript appears to be in Hale's hand. In it, Hale describes how and why he collected material from African slaves in Rio de Janeiro.
