Pillow End-Plaque (Begaenmo)
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. Black-lacquered wood inlaid with mother-of-pearl. Another black-lacquered wood pillow plaque is inlaid in mother-of-pearl with a stylized ideograph reading:"long life." Numerous graphic as well as ideographic stylizations are used as design motifs and decorative patterns (Im 1986: 77-85 for illustrations). Bernadou Field Notes 3 "Disk at end of Korean pillow. Device a Chinese character inlaid, in mother of pearl. These form the end of cylindrical hair stuffed pillows in common use. The inlaid work is from the southern province of Kyong-sangdo and Cholla-do where are situated the pearl fisheries." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XXII fig. 4; Bernadou Field Notes 3" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 111]
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: E77033-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pillow
physicalDescription: label: Diameter
content: 17.8 cm