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Description: | A tobacco box cut from a single piece of hard fine grained wood with a tight fitting lid and carved all over in low relief with a design of monkeys in a peach tree. The eyes of the monkeys are inlaid with what looks like amber or glass. The ojime (bead) is a small monkey climbing up the cord, while the netsuke (toggle) is a female monkey nursing a young one, and on her back clamber three other young monkeys. | Source: | Manchester Museum | Identifier: | mm.emu.ecatalogue.humanities.161922 | Go to resource |
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