. Guide leaflet. Courtesy G. P. Putnams Sons Fig. 35. MANS EMERGENCE IN GEOLOGIC TIME. Numerals at left standfor millions of years since beginning of period, according to rate of radium emana-tion from uranium minerals, based on Barrells estimates [77]. MAN AND NATUREPUBLICATIONS Science Guide No. 86 m<^ -cms. THE NETSUKE OF JAPAN By HERBERT P. WHITLOCK Curator of Minerals and Gems, American Museum i< Reprinted from Natural History Magazinefor February^ 1935 f GUroE LEAFLET SERIES, No. 87 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORYNEW YORK, 1935 Tt^ij^^ k ^tJ)JS The Netsuke of Japan An accoun
. Guide leaflet. Courtesy G. P. Putnams Sons Fig. 35. MANS EMERGENCE IN GEOLOGIC TIME. Numerals at left standfor millions of years since beginning of period, according to rate of radium emana-tion from uranium minerals, based on Barrells estimates [77]. MAN AND NATUREPUBLICATIONS Science Guide No. 86 m<^ -cms. THE NETSUKE OF JAPAN By HERBERT P. WHITLOCK Curator of Minerals and Gems, American Museum i< Reprinted from Natural History Magazinefor February^ 1935 f GUroE LEAFLET SERIES, No. 87 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORYNEW YORK, 1935 Tt^ij^^ k ^tJ)JS The Netsuke of Japan An account of certain miniature Japanese carvings featuring themythical stories they tell By Herbert P. Whitlock Curator, Department of Minerals and Gems, American Museum In Japan, where the art of carving both beautifully and delicately in ivory and woodhas been carried to such extraordinary perfection, a particular type of carving isunique. The Japanese costume is devoid of pockets, with the result that each personusually carries a handsome bag or detached pocket which he attaches to his girdleby means of a netsuke.^ This decorative piece, usually of ivory or of wood, is almostinvariably a little work of art, and the specimens that illustrate the follo
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