Playing Cards (Tujeon)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1886
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ensign U S N John B. Bernadou
notes: label: Notes
content: "Late 19th century. Ink on varnished paper. The set consists of eighty-one cards with suit signs marked in black on all but one blank card. The blank one is probably used to replace a lost card. There are eight suit signs, known as the eight general cards, each with its own value: 1) The man (injang); 2) fish (eojang); 3) hawk (jojang); 4) pheasant (chijang); 5) deer (jangjang); 6) star (seongjang); 7) horse (majang); 8) hare (tojang). This game is played by four people (Culin, 1958: 123-126). Each person takes twenty cards (Jo and Prunner, 1984: 58). The numerals, which are placed above the suit marks, run up to nine for each suit, and the tenth card is the general (jang). Players are from the lower classes, yet men of higher rank used the cards to gamble (Culin, 1958: 123-126)... Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XXIV, fig. 1; Bernadou Field Notes 17" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 149]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 25
place: label: Place
content: Korea, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 016970
label: USNM Number
content: E77047-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Playing Card
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 20.4 cm
label: Width
content: 3.2 cm