Woman's Linen Skirt (Mosi Chima)
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. Linen. The skirt is blue and the waistband and the tying string white. Chima may be long or short, narrow or wide requiring fewer or more pleats, lined or unlined and varicolored, depending upon the prescribed styles associated with certain occasions, seasons and age of the wearer. A dress skirt can have gold-leaf stamped decorations along the hemline (Kim, 1988b: 482 for style variations). This wraparound skirt has a full-length opening and overlaps on the left side, with only a small amount of the material tucked into the waist band. Hough makes the curious observation that: "The appearance of this garment has led Korean women to say that they dress like western women." Bernadou Field Notes 123 "... Tch'ma [chima] or dress of blue cotton stuff. This is put on like a long apron, the strings taken around the waist and fastened behind. In walking, the folds are generally gathered by hand and tucked under the waistband." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 449; Bernadou Field Notes 123" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 34]
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: E77104-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Skirt
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 122 cm
label: Width
content: 84 cm