Mourner's Leggings (Be-Haengjeon)
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. Hemp. The hemp cloth used for a mourning costume is of the coarsest unbleached fabric, and tends to be darker than the usual hemp cloth for a variety of other clothing. The strings are tied around the calf to cover the junction of the trousers and socks. Hough describes these leggings as "brown hemp cloth." Bernadou writes "... Haing-tyen [haengjeon] or leggings. Of hemp cloth and worn with the mourning dress. The strings are at the tops of the leggings. They are wound around the legs and tied. See large Fig. A." [Figure A on p. 63 refers to his pencil sketch of a standing figure in full mourning costume. The numeral 34, field note number for hemp cloth leggings, is written next to the leggingsJ (Bernadou Field Notes 34). Collected in Seoul. Ref. Hough Korean Catalog p. 455; Bernadou Field Notes 34" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 64]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 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: E77086-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Legging
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 24.8 cm
label: Width
content: 20 cm