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Necklaces with medallion pendants were worn by women at ceremonial
ceremonial festivals. Early medallions were made in China and Russia,
later Japanese traders also brought some to Hokkaido. In the centre of the medallion is
the coat of arms (withsudomoemon) of the Matsumae family, who received Hokkaido as a fiefdom in 1599 from the
the Japanese central government, the Shogunate, as a fiefdom.
had.
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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data
Cultural attribution
Ainu
Object type
necklaces
Dimensions
285 x 133 x 21 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 51
Other number(s)
RJM 1901/09
Provenance and sources
when
19th century
where
Japan
Asia -> East-Asia -> Japan -> North-Japan ->
Hokkaido
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