Man's Summer Outerrobe (Mosi Dopo)
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. White linen. This is a wide-sleeved, white-linen outer coat with back panel gored up to the shoulder blades.The outer coat (dopo) was a scholar-official's everyday attire. Standard colors are white or light jade green; white, usually for mourning, and blue-green especially for celebratory occasions. Coats made of linen or ramie are for summer and cotton or silk for winter (Seok, 1992b: 21, and 41, illustration number 16). The outer coat is worn with a narrow tasseled belt (cat. no. 44), leather-lined silk shoes (cat. no. 52) and wide brimmed hat (67). Following the 1884 dress-code reformation, the dopo was no longer required (Kim, 1988b: 162).Bernadou Field Notes 124 "... outer coat. This specimen is n1ade of n10si grass cloth. To this there are two sets of strings. The inner ones are tied under the left arm. The left side of the garment is then wrapped over the right and the outer strings tied under the right arm in a long bow, the ends being allowed to hang down... " Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 452; Bernadou Field Notes 124" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 49]
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: E77105-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Outer Robe
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 144 cm
label: Length
content: 68.7 cm
label: Width
content: 56 cm