This label in cursive Cyrillic was attached to an object from the Khabarovsk Museum. The Amur, or a??great river,a?? is one of the longest in the world with its source deep in the interior of Asia. It empties into the Pacific Ocean in southeastern Siberia at the Sea of Okhotsk, which is north of the Japanese island of Hokkaido (home of the Ainu) and Sakhalin Island. A major ethnological collection of 305 objects, from various groups who inhabit the Amur River delta, was accessioned by the Penn Museuma??s American Section in 2003. is material came from Philadelphiaa??s Commercial Museum after it closed in 1994. Acquisition of this collection put the Penn Museum in possession of one of three major collections in the western hemisphere from this region; Chicagoa??s Field Museum and New Yorka??s American Museum of Natural History hold the other two. The stories of these three collections are intertwined from their very beginnings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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