MS 7356  Plates from Korean Games with Notes on the Corresponding Games of China and Japan
odd: label: Variant Title
content: Korean games

Mary A. Shefeldt [sic] collection of color reproductions of watercolors of Korean games by Kisan
name: label: Artist
content: Kim, Chun-gŭn, active 19th century
place: label: Place
content: Korea
label: Place
content: East Asia
creator: label: Artist
content: Kim, Chun-gŭn, active 19th century
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 22 Color lithographs
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1886
container: label: Container
content: Box 7356
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The original watercolor drawings were collected by Mary A. Shufeldt at Ch'oryang (near Pusan) in 1886. They were published in Stewart Culin's Korean Games with Notes on the Corresponding Games of China and Japan, University of Pennsylvania, 1895. 

It is unknown how or when the prints were obtained by USNM or the Department of Anthropology.  The prints were transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives by Chang-su Houchins in April 1983.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7356
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Color lithographs
label: Type
content: Photomechanical prints
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Lithographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photomechanical prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Lithographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: The original drawings from which these lithographs were made are held by the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania (cat. 21574).
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of 22 plates removed from Stewart Cullin's Korean Games with Notes on the Corresponding Games of China and Japan (1895).  The plates are color lithographs of drawings deposited by Mary A. Shufeldt in the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.

Included are:
1. Court officials in military dress;
2. Korean dancing boy; 
3. Hunters on snow shoes; 
4. Kite flying; 
5. Rope walking; 
6. Top spinning; 
7. Spade shoveling; 
8. See-saw; 
9. Swinging; 
10. Kicked shuttlecock; 
11. Boys playing blind man's bluff;
12. Girls playing blind man's bluff; 
13. Girls playing jacks with coins;
14. Bowmaker and archer; 
15. Yut [ New Year's game] playing;
16. Dignitaries plying chonggyongdo game;
17. Backgammon; 
18. Korean chess;
19. Korean chess; 
20. Korean checkers; 
21. Dominoes; 
22. Gambling.

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds a collection of watercolors by the same artist in Kim Chun-gŭn drawings of Korean life (NAA MS 211195).