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Pair of Carrying Poles

Pair of Carrying Poles - Accessory, Doll
Accession #: 812.18
Title: Pair of Carrying Poles
Object Type: Accessory, Doll
Participants:
Physical Description: Set of two black lacquer sticks or poles for carrying the smaller trunks in the collection of accessories (812.6 and 812.7). The poles are rectangular, and are wider at one half than the other half.
Description: The name for a lacquer chest/luggage (812.6 or 812.7) with 2 carrying poles (812.18) in Japanese (Romaji) is "Hasamibako" 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)
812.6 (Yoshitoku Corporation, Trunk, Wardrobe Trunk - Hasamibako, 1927)
812.7 (Yoshitoku Corporation, Trunk, Trunk - Hasamibako, 1927)
Geographical Reference: Tokushima (International->Asia->Japan)
Dimensions:
length 10"
width at widest point 1/2"
width at narrowest point 1/4"
Materials/Techniques:
lacquer (coating) ( -> ->coating (material)) (Material)
wood (plant material) ( -> -> -> ) (Material)
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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