Hat For Civil Official (Samo)
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. Lacquered paper and woven bamboo covered with sateen. This two-tiered, high-crown hat is made of woven silk, black-lacquered with a bamboo frame, which shapes its high, terraced crown. Attached to either side of the back are rounded rectangular wings projecting horizontally. These are also bamboo covered with raw silk gauze. Jenings, citing a Chinese poet's description, says they are "like the locust singing in the tree with love and peace toward all men. And as the locust is the emblem of peace, the royalty and men of noble rank wear the locust-wing emblem on their headdress" (Jenings, 1904: 154). Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XIX, upper fig. 1; Bernadou Field Notes 89" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 66]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
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: E77063-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 14 cm
label: Minimum Height
content: 16.7 cm
label: Maximum Height
content: 19.7 cm