Woman's Winter Hood (Nambawi)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1886
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ensign U S N John B. Bernadou
notes: label: Notes
content: "19th century Silk brocade with red felt lining and black rabbit fur trim and applied tassels and beads. Purple here, the hood is lined with red felt and trimmed with black rabbit fur. Tassels and beads decorate the hood. The hood covers the Forehead and the ears, and the rounded V-shaped back protects the neck. At the end of the Choson Period, this hood would have been worn by a woman of any class. Fabric, color, ornamentation, and other features such as lining and padding were determined by sex, age, and social status of the wearer (Kim, 1988b: 120; for illustrations, see HUM ('Hanguk ui mi' or Beauty of Korea), 1988: 47, illustration numbers 72 and 73). Bernadou and Hough state that a "similar hood is worn by men under the hat." Conventionally, men wore a black hood lined with green. Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 451; Bernadou Field Notes 149" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 41]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 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: E77080-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hood
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 28 cm
label: Width
content: 17 cm