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Traveling Trunk - Toranku

Traveling Trunk - Toranku - Trunk
Accession #: 812.40
Title: Traveling Trunk - Toranku
Object Type: Trunk
Participants:
Physical Description: Miss Tokushima's traveling trunk. Black metal trunk with leather closures and handle, and brass tacks along all raised metal edges. The lid is removable and held to the base of the trunk with leather straps. There are a variety of shipping labels adhered to the top face of the trunk, including a torn label addressed to: "Mr. T.A. Bonser / Eastern Washington State Historical / 2316 West First Avenue / Spokane, Washington" There are also leather straps in the interior for securing Miss Tokushima inside the case.
Description: The name for the travel trunk for the doll (doll carrying hard case, metal corners, leather straps with metal closures) ) in Japanese (Romaji) is "Toranku" according to Michiko Takaoka, former director of the Japanese Cultural Center Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute. The Miss Tokushima doll was used as part of an international doll exchange to promote goodwill between Japan and the U. S. This doll is 1 of 58 doll ambassadors sent by 2,610,000 Japanese school girls in those Primary Schools and Kindergartens which had received one of the 12,739 Doll Messengers of Friendship sent to Japan in the spring of 1927 by thousands of American children and young people. The Friendship Doll exchange was coordinated by the Committee on World Friendship Among Children, which was instituted by The Commission on International Justice and Goodwill of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. This particular doll represents the Tokushima prefecture on the island of Shikoku.
Category: History
Related Objects:
812.1 (Koryusai Takizawa, Doll, Japanese Friendship Doll, Miss Tokushima, 1927)
Geographical Reference: Tokushima (International->Asia->Japan)
Dimensions:
length 35"
width 13"
depth 9 1/2"
Materials/Techniques:
leather ( -> -> -> ) (Material)
cloth ( -> -> -> ) (Material)
brass (alloy) ( -> -> ->metal) (Material)
metal ( -> -> ) (Material)
Marks/Inscription:
Made By / William Bal Company / Newark N.J New York N.Y. (on the narrow edge of the lid.)
Related Exhibits:
Credit Line: Gift of the Goodwill Doll Exchange, 1927. In honor of their work to further the exchange of friendship and knowledge between the people of Japan and the people of the Inland Northwest and for their work in the history of Friendship Dolls, the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture dedicates "Miss Tokushima" to Michiko and Hiroshi Takaoka. Board of Trustees, September 5, 2006.

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