Male Mourner's Inner Robe (Jungdan)
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, Hemp. This inner mourning robe has a back made of one straight piece of cloth with two gores extending front the armpits down. The straight front piece has only one gore. Two tying strings are attached to the front. Hough describes the fabric as being like "sackcloth." He adds that the jungdan is worn under the simui (cat. No. E77084), and that a mourning costume is "made after a fixed ceremonial pattern and worn by a son for two years after the decease of a male parent." Actually, the mourning period for a son after the decease of a male parent is three years. In the second year, he changes his mourning costume and gradually returns to normal attire (for the three stages of mourning, see Pak. 1990: 163). Jungdall also refers to two other distinctive robe patterns worn between the undergarment and outerrobe. One, ceremonial, has wide square sleeves of either white or light green figured silk or plain weave raw silk. The sleeve ends, part of the front panels, and hemline are edged in a darker color. The other type is an innerrobe for a young dancer. The sleeves taper toward the ends, and the right side of the front panels and hemline are edged in black. The fabrics for this type are white linen for summer and white pongee for winter. The collar is of colorful silk such as yellow, green or pink (Kim, 1988b: 448-449). Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 454; Bernadou Field Notes 133" [from: An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885" Chang-su Cho Houchins, Smithsonian Institution, 2004, number 61]
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: E77083-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Robe
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 29 cm
label: Width
content: 183 cm
label: Length - Sleeves
content: 68.5 cm
label: Width - Sleeves
content: 45 cm
label: Length
content: 29 cm
label: Width
content: 183 cm
label: Length
content: 68.5 cm
label: Width
content: 45 cm