Tobacco Box (Yeoncho-Hap; Dambae-Gwak)
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. Iron inlaid with copper. This is a lidded circular iron tobacco box with copper inlay. Hough explains the inlay technique: "The iron is first made rough by filing or hacking and the wire [filature] design laid on and burnished down." The surface is burnished and polished. The lid here is decorated with a Chinese character that reads su; (long life). The sides are inlaid with felicitous chrysanthemums, birds, and insects. Metal tobacco boxes decorated with silver or copper filature inlay design are customarily "used by a government official or upper class scholar to store cut tobacco" (Adams, 1987: 27). Tobacco boxes are rectangular, circular or hexagonal. Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XXI, fig. 5; Bernadou Field Notes 82" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 100]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: E77039-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tobacco Box
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 7.7 cm
label: Diameter
content: 10.2 cm