View of a stone coffin in the countryside which is being exposed as the earth is washed away.
Bibliography:
Plate XXXV, "Stone coffin in situ, Domioji," in Romyn Hitchcock, "The Ancient Burial Mounds of Japan," USNM Annual Report 1891.
Related Work:
An albumen print is also available: NAA INV 04710300, Photo lot 77-38, Romyn Hitchcock photographs of Ainu people, Japan, and Korea, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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