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Net Bag

Carrying or display bag Bag is made of sisal string. The double bottom is made in a circular shape with a chain stitch. The stings extend upward from the bottom and are knotted together at intervals creating a mesh ending in four points at the top.…

Netsuke

Ornament to be hung from belt to carry personal items Cast metal in shape of a Cicada with orange bead at one end and hook in the shape of a scepter at the other These are all protective symbols. Cicada is symbol of resurrection etc. It all would…

New Year Cards

New Year's Cards 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" 13 pink cards 34 white cards two flag poles criss-crossed with an American flag on left side and Chinese (Kuomintang) flag on right side tied with a bow with Chinese writing on either side of bow and a fan-shaped…

New Year's Cards

New Year's Cards and Summer Greeting Cards Sent Semi-Annually A: Wood Block print of young girl in red blue and fuschia kimono bouncing temari ball beside pine tree two kites fly above her head. Red seal at lower left. Back of card in English…

New Years Decoration

Hanging New Years Decoration Decoration has bamboo and wire frame with gold foil card attached to the upper section above twisted straw decoration. The upper front has three plastic molded faces. The two small ones at the top are male the left one…

Newspaper

Newspaper written in Japanese "Jiji Shimpo Ocean Edition" April 30 1929 Two pages of yellowing paper black ink printing written in Japanese except half of one page written in English reporting Western news has some photographs and half a page of…

Niddy Noddy

Lahu wooden Niddy-Noddy with red yarn. (a) Central shaft is roughly-rounded hardwood 3.5" circ. reduced to 1.75" circ. on 4 in. of each end. There are red letter "A"'s on each end. Over each end is fitted a pair of bowed arms drilled at their centers…

Nightgown

Commercially manufactured full-length off-white cotton nightgown with long sleeves ruffles and floral ribbon trim. Label in the neckline reads "Jonley 34" in blue script. Sqared neck is lines with ruffles and trimmed with ribbon as is the front…

Nightgown

nightgown Japanese style of American flannel made by Yoshiko Bitow Maeda

Noodles, dried

Red rectangular cardboard box. On front image of two shrimp with plants. "Shrimp Noodle" Chinese characters and manufacterers logo with image of a flower. On two sides says "Shrimp Noodle" and other two sides are Chinese characters. On left side…