Male Mourner's Hat (Paeraengi; Pyeongnyangja)
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. Split, woven and bleached bamboo. This hat is of woven split bamboo with cylindrical crown and narrow brim. A paeraengi is worn by mourners, lowly persons like coolies [sic], butchers, and members of bobusang, the Peddlers Guild. When members of the Peddlers' Guild wore this type of bamboo hat, a cotton ball was fastened on either side of the hat brim, each with a string to tie under the chin. The coolies [sic] blacken the bamboo hat. Bernadou Field Notes 12 "Pyo-rang-i [paeraengi] Made of split bamboo. Worn as mourning by a son before the burial of a deceased parent; worn also by adopted sons in mourning for their real parents. Otherwise in common use among chair coolies [sic], and worn by government slaves [sic]. The members of the peddlers' guild pow-syang-pei [bobusang] fasten small pieces of raw conan at intervals around the base of the crown. Manufactured in the district of Tai-my Ang [Damyang] in the southern province of Chun-la-do, where also many articles of bamboo ware are manufactured." Collected in Damyang, South Jeolla province. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XVIII, fig. 3; Bernadou Field Notes 12" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 56]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 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: E77064-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 12.1 cm
label: Diameter
content: 39 cm