Sheet Of Oiled Paper (Yuji)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1886
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ensign U S N John B. Bernadou
notes: label: Notes
content: "Mulberry bark applied with sesame-seed oil. Korean oiled paper is made by steeping sheets of mulberry-bark paper in the oil prepared from sesame seeds. Use of oiled paper is varied. It is mainly found as floor covering of the ondol, heated room. Ondol refers to the Korean under-floor heating system. Other uses are for making hats and coats as rain gear, including umbrellas. It also is used for fan construction. Bernadou Field Notes 87 "... Rain clothes are made of it; the earthen floors of a heated room are covered with it ... Made at many places, but principally at Songdo (now Kaesong, Kyeonggi province), the old capital, about forty miles from Seoul. Prepared by steeping in the oil prepared from the seeds of sesamum." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 441; Bernadou Field Notes 87" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 115]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: E77068-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Paper
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 56 cm
label: Width
content: 91.5 cm