Man's Coarse Comb (Eollebit)
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. Wood. This coarse wooden comb has thick teeth for untangling hair. Bernadou Field Notes 23 "... O-om-pit or coarse comb. Made from wood coming from the island of tjei-tjou [Jeju (formerly Cheju)] or Quelpart. The manufacture of combs from this wood is carried on in many southern provinces." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 459; Bernadou Field Notes 23" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 86]
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: E77044-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Comb
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 9.6 cm
label: Width
content: 5.8 cm