Tobacco Pipe (Dambaettae; Janjuk)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1886
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ensign U S N John B. Bernadou
notes: label: Notes
content: No catalog card found in card file
label: Notes
content: "Late 19th century. Bamboo shaft and white metal bowl and mouthpiece. This is a long, straight bamboo tobacco pipe with a white metal pipe bowl and mouthpiece. Tobacco was introduced to Korea from Japan in the early 17th century (Yi, 1962, vol. 1: 373). The smoking pipe with gold, jade, agate or another gemstone mouthpiece was fashionable among upper-class men (Kim 1992: 215). Hough makes reference to an interesting comment by the collector William Woodville Rockhill that "time is even reckoned by them [the Koreans] by the number of pipes smoked. Thus you will hear them say 'han tae man moku torawatta; 'he only stopped long enough to smoke one pipe" (Rockhill, 1891: 183). Bernadou Field Notes 100 "Pipe and mouthpiece of Chinese white metal. There is a considerable trade in this alloy with China, as it is not made in Korea and as most Korean pipes are made of it. The shape of this specimen is characteristic; as there is very little difference in this respect in any Korean pipes." The alloy to which Bernadou refers is a mixture of copper, zinc and nickel. Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 463; Bernadou Field Notes 100" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 97]
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: E77041-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 30 cm