Seam Iron For Clothing (Indu)
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 and wood. This flatiron has a boat-shaped head and angular iron bar set into a wooden handle. The head has a smooth underside. A rude chiseled ornamentation is on the bar. There are two kinds of seam irons: one is used for everyday sewing to press down seams and the other is used for quilting fabrics for winter clothing. The seam iron is used to help line up separate pieces of fabric (Kim, 1988b: 399). Hough states that one kind of seam iron is capable of the two different functions and likens the Korean seam iron to a soldering iron. Bernadou Field Notes 95 "In-to [indu] Iron used for ironing seams after sewing. Pieces of clothing are commonly taken apart upon washing and re-sewed afterwards." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XVII, fig. 1; Bernadou Field Notes 95" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 106]
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: E77026-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Iron
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 32.5 cm